Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-05-17
% YOU HIRE A PIANO.!
u .. Your Music Is Very Costly. NJ Least
SO says "a Dealer in Pianos.

II nuslitss ci Teltlbp plana>
the most profitable one | know Of
said a Washington dealer in that line
yery frankly.
in the first place, no really expen-
sive piano Is ever rented; the risk
would b. too great for one thing. Quo
could not afford 10 ln.rust 10 a
stranger an instrpment worth from
$50 % 81. $40, winch is about the range
fof the finest makes. The pianos hired
out are of "A lower grade, word' from
$500 To $500"
But what is the CHARGE"
Usually about s. "A MONTH
THAT is nearly 800 "A year. Pretty
good interest, | should say, OH a s3U
piano.
Decidedly so. That is just the
point of my remark. | don't know
any other investment that pays iroIr
% to 80 per cent. per annum. Wa
have twenty pianos let all the time,
and you can perceive that they mua
bring about so. 900 a year"
what is the life OF "A pianof'
Fifteen years, 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 l 900 or 81, LOG on it, SO We
are satisfied"
"Some people, though, probably
give a piano very unfair usagef'
Often that occurs 1t is a sourct
of loss 10 US unavoidably, but we can
afford to endure it. You see, persons
who rent pianos are not likely TO be 50
careful Of them as if they were their
own property. They let their chill
dren bang upon them, and that is IA
ways very injurious. The keys are SO
carefully pivoted that if they Are
struck sideways instead of perpend;cn
lar they are apt to be thrown out o!
gear. An active infant in this way
and by pounding can do a good deal
Of hurt to a piano IN a comparatively
short time. And maybe the IS a
month won't pay for it. Or the &C.
tioAi, which includes the keys aud al
those complicated inside works which
make the communication between the
keys and hammers, may be loosened
and then there is nothing 20 do but 10
send the piano back To the factory anc
have a new action put IN, which costs
from $40 To $50. People have other
ways besides this of injuring an instru.
ment.
such Us what, pray!'
"Why. they will subject a piano 10
extremes of heat and cold. That is al
ways destructive. For example, on a
cold winter day the servant will throw
open the windows Of the overheateL
parlor and ic, In" freezing air come in,
and no member of the family will
probably know any better than to do
such thing. Asa consequence, the
sounding board is warped and cracked,
aud the wires are rusted and other
damage done. IL would be "A 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 a
house that caught fire. and afterward
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 ana scratch
ed, but that does not amount To -
much"
DO people ever steal tbs pianos
0ey rent from you and run away with
theml"
1T has never happened to uA
though such things are sometimes
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.
arily a greater price is charged in
such cases than if cash were paid. But
often it happens that pianos SO pur.
chased come back Oh u hands
after three or four months with
q loosened action and other damage
6eEe that costs more 10 repair than we
have received for the piano, the usrll
method being to pay something, like
SIS down and TO give notes OF hand
Tor SO each, falling due monthly. Tor
the bal; G. 1t goes without saying
eat installment customers often 10
.ault ia their payments, and then We
simply grab the pianos. People who
purchase in that way never seem to DO
aware tina. in law an article so bought
remains the property of the seller un-
til the last cent due has been paid. So,
in order ~ have that little fact thor
oughly comprehended, we introduce it
as a part Of the contract which the u
toner is obliged TO sign before lac gets
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