Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-05-01
DO YOU HIRE A PIANO,
n So Your Music IL Very Costly, at Least
80 Says "a Dealer IA Pianos.

Inc hnS.nGSS ot frlllhs pianos II
the most profitable one | know of,
said u Washington dealer in that line
very frankly
I'm the .irl place, no really eXpcn-
sive piano is ever rented; the risk
would be too great for one thing. One
could not afford To mlrust To a
stranger an Instrument worth from
$500 to 81 500, which Is about the range
for the finest makes. The pianos hired
out a'r uI "a lower grade, worth from
$500 to $500
but what il tie charge.
"Gstaliy about s. Il month
That Is nearly 800 a year. Pretty
good interest, | should say, on a S3W
pi:no.
Decidedly 50. That is Just the
point of my remark. don't know
any other investment that pays froT
- 10 50 per cent. per annum. W.
have twenty pianos let all the time,
and you can perceive that they must
bring about 81, 900 "a year
what is the life OF "A pianDf"
Fifteen wears, with fair usage. Al
the end of that time the instrument is
not apt TO be capable Of further SER
vice, but in the meantime we have
cleared $1,000 or Sl,l00 on it, SO we
are satisfied.
Some people, though, probably
give a piano very unfair usageT
Often that occurs. IL is "A source
.f lne., a., ~ ,n.,.,i,l.hl,. Int ,yn .an
afford To endure it. You See, persons
who rent pianos are not likely 10 be SD
careful of them as ii they were THEN
oSn property. They let their chi,
dren bang upon them, and that is IA
ways very injurious. The keys are 81
carefully pivoled that if they are
struck sideways instead Of perpend.c>
lar they are apt To be thrown out o,
ear. An active infant III this way
and by pounding eau dol good Gcal
N hurt 10 a piano IN a comparatively
short time. And maybe Tie IS a
month won't pay for H. Or the ac-
lion, which Includes the keys aud AZ
those complicated inside WORKS which
make the communication between the
keys aud hammers, may bc ioOscncd
and then there is nothing Ia du but Ia
send the piano back 10 the factory ans.
have "a new action pat IN, which costs
from $40 To $50 People nave other
ways besides this Of injurng an instru-
ment.
such as what. pray!'
Why, they will subject a piano to
extremes of heat and cold. lIat is al
WAYS destructive. For example, on a
cold winter day the servant Will throw
open the windows of the ovcrhcated
parlor and let the freeing air come in.
and no member %. the family will
probably know any better than to du
such thing. .As - consequence. the
sounding board il warped and cracked.
aud the wires are rBs,rd aud other
damage done. IL would lc "A great
deal less injurious ii the domestic had
poured several pailfJls of cold waller
into liIc instrument. There l. "A piano
over in that corner which was in a
house that caught tire. and aitcrward
We pumped fourteen gallons OF water
out of IL. Yet it has served very well
ever since and has retained a remarka.
bly, good tone. Sometimes the case Of
the instrument is marred and scratch
ed, but that does not amount to SO
much.
DO people ever steal the pianos
Gey rent from you and run away with
themf
- 1t has never happened to US,
though such things are sometimes
done. We have been very lucky in
that way. The people we have more
trouble with than those 10 whom We
rent pianos are the buyers on install
ments. Profit is ordinarily 'ound in
selling pianos that way, hccaus" neces-
sarlly IA greater price Is charged in
such eases than If cash We're paid. But
often il happens that pianos 50 pur-
chased come back on our hands
after three or four months with
a ipy>rncd action and other damage
done that cost, more 10 repair than we
have received for the piano, the usl al
method being To pay something like
SO down and 10 give notes of hand
for $40 each, falling due moulhly, Tor
the bali e, 1t goes without saying
that iDstallment customers often de-
fault IN their payments, aud then we
simply grab the pianos. People who
purchase in that way never seem To be
aware that ia law AN article - bought
~emains the property of tine seller uu-
al the last cent due has been paid, So,
in order To have that little fact thor
ouglliy cUmprchcnded. we introduce it
aS part of the contract which the GUS
toner is Obliged TO sign before he gets
the instrument. t.-Washington Star
Deacon Ingrahsm aud III. iioar.