Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
DO you HIRE A pIAna.
If So Your Music Is Very Cosuv
SO Says a Dealer ., 10y at Lea,

"The business of rent;nc
the the, most % profitable one | k plouos i
said a Washington dealer in N nov Of,
very frankly. :" maj line
In the first place, no real,,,
slve piano IS ever rented expen-
would be too great for ono Mn; 'ne risk
could not afford to intr,,nt One
stranger an instrument worth y
$500 to 81, 800, which is about tS ~ IRON
for the finest makes. The nia ,,,e range
out are of a lower grade wort Is ealred
$500 to $500" "'''n Iron
But what is the charger
Usually about IS a month -
That is nearly 500 a wear D.
good interest, | should say, on ar IVY
Decidedly so. That i a..
point OF my remark. | don't Ile
any other investment that nav. Auow
% to 30 per cent. per annnm IRON ION
have twenty pianos let ali tba We
and you can perceive that thew n n
bring about 50, 900 year muS
What is the life Of pianoT
Fifteen years. with fair usaoo
the end of that time the instrn%.,. Al
not apt to be capable of furtba 'l' Is
vice, but in the meantime wa WI L YER
cleared $1,000 or 81, 100 on 4 Il uave
are satisfied. " I'VE
Some people, though. nrobo,,
give a piano very unfair usagegn
Often that occurs. 1t is a son..
Of loss to us unavoidably, but Wa s oo
afford to endure it. You see nal ~o eal
who rent pianos are not likely r. F'j i"
careful of them as if they were ~, -
own property. They let their ' c55
dren bang upon them, and that /; suii'
ways very injurious. The KEYS ara
carefully pivoted that if thew ~
struck sideways instead of perDend; o'
lar they are apt to be thrown ont :,
gear. An active infant in this von
and by pounding can do a GOOD day
of hurt to a piano in a comparatira sH
short time. And maybe the SS
month won't pay for it. Or the a.
ton, which includes the KEYS and al
those complicated inside works W6cb
make the communication between IN
keys and hammers, may be lomeraJ
and then there is nothing to do bnt =
send the piano back to the factory and
have new action put in, which eoT,
from $40 to $50 People have otbs,
WAYS besides this of iDiurinp an inst
ment."
Such as what, pray2"
why, they will subject piano IA
extremes of heat and cold. That isaI
ways destructive. For example on !,
cold winter day the servant will throw
open the windows of the overbeatJ
parlor and let the freezing air comem
and no member of the family will
probably know any better than to do
such a thing. AS a consequence tbe
sounding board is warped and cracked
and the wires are rusted and other
damage done. 1t would be great
deal less injurious if the domestic had
poured several pailfuls of cold water
INTO the instrument There is a piano
over IN that corner which was in
house that caught fire, and afterwad
we pumped fourteen gallons of water
out of it. Yet it has served very well
ever since and has retained aremarka-
bly, good tone. Sometimes the case Of
the instrument is marred and scratch.
ed, but that does not amount TO 50
much"
DO people ever steal the pianos
they rent from you and run away with
them2'
1T has never happened to Us,
though such things are sOmetim@
done. We have been very lucky in
that way. The people we have more
trouble with than those to whom we
rent pianos are the buyers on Install
ments. Profit is ordinarily found in
selling pianos that way, because neces
sarily a greater price is charged in
such cases than if cash were paid. But
often it happens that pianos 50 pur
chased come back on our hands
after three or four months with
loOSehed acton and other damage
done that costs more to repair than We
have received for the piano, the usld
method being to pay something like
S25 down and to give notes of hand
for SO each, falling due monthly, for
the balance. 1t goes without saying
that installment customers often de-
fault III their payments, and then We
simply grab the pianos. People who
purchase i'll that way never seem to b
aware that in law an article so bought
remains the property of the seller IN.
til the last cent due has been paid So
in order to have that little fact thor
comprehended, we introduces
as part of the contract which the Gus
toner is obliged to sign before he gea
the instrument Washington Star