Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-19
PIANO NOTES.
Piano. piano!

Who's got the piano?
The Eagles claim it by 455, 474 votes.
The Rebekahs contest the claim
with 23S, 1927 votes.
Some OF our merchants are astound-
ed at the business accredited to them.
1t cannot be said that the piano in
the contest has yet struck harmon
ious chord.
A millinary establishment, accord
ing to the returns, has sold $4,000
worth of hats.
A tailoring establishment has been
doing business of $f7,600 per month
ever since the contest began.
Auditor Callow is the sole Judge and
returning board. He is literally be-
tween the Devil and the Deep Sea.
1t would take the magic touch oil
Paderewski to make the Eagles Re
bekah piano sound forth harmonious
chords to some ears just now.
If Mr.. Callow's acknowledged per
sonal popularity can umpire" piano
contest without impairment it must
indeed stand upon foundation Of
solid rock.
Some envious people say, since the
piano contest closed, that the object
of contention has cheap "inards" in its
snowy case-an instance of stand-up
collar and cotton socks, as it were.
There is only one man in town who
wants another piano contest, and he
wasn't in on the other one. He has
been reading the colossal figures of ex-
pansion sales of rivals and wants a
chance to initiate little himself.
Fraud has been charged in voting
on the piano contest. The ground on
which it is based seems broad enough
for both contestants TO stand upon.
There is lull in the proceedings and
all seem to be waiting for the party
who has not sinned to cast the first
stone.
These are only mentioned as leaders.
A drug store in the deal has done a
phenomenal amount of trade and the
grocery stores have Jared we'll. If all
the other business firms have done as
we'll. we are surely ON the high road to
prosperity.
1t seems that full rest has followed
the stdcdtto movement in the final
strain of the piano contest, and now
both contestants have reached hold
ending at a double bar; the brere has
supplemented the observation-disclosures,
which marked the appeggio passage,
ending in well.executed acciaccatura.
The diminuendo has followed the
crescendo, and pianissimo has sup.
planted the fortissip,o with which the
ballots were run into the box a. the
close OF the performance.
II a Tacoma or any other music
dealer again attempts to unload q
piano upon an unsuspectins, peaceful
community, opening up a veritable
Pandora's box of evils, he should be
made to listen to the discord that may
be produced on one Of those internal
machines by q next door neighbor
while learning to manipulate its glis-
tening keys. At Walla Walla, at Yak.
ina and at Spokane, these ponderous
instruments, that it is claimed are at
tuned to harmony. have been the
means of creating discord and have
left heart-burnings that will last for
many days.
The same man who set our good
people by the ears in the late piano
contest is trying 10 unload three Of
those instruments OF torture upon the
unsuspecting people OF Tacoma. The
effect il in every respect demoralizing
upon the people, aside from the dis.
cord produced. 1t is just as much a
game of chance as the slot machine or
the cent-to'dollar ticket rattle. It ia.
miliarizes the rising generation with
gaming far more effectively than a
dozen Sunday schools can extirpate
the seed thus sown. If the slot ma
chine must 60. under the new law, the
piano gambling device should be in
continentally suppressed by that
higher Law decree-public Sc ntiment.