The Lamar register., 1913-09-03
A PIANO
sy JENNIE coNNERY.

my wife and I have been buying q
D1ano," said the man in the smoking
oar. IF you never went shopping for
Q piano you'd better get me to tell
you how 1t IL done. Anyway. you
can't keep me from telling you.
First, you decide that you might
Sust - well quit hoping ever to have
enough money to buy piano. and
then you take the bull by the horns
and say: oh, well, we'll go In debt
Tor IT. That's the only way some
folks will ever have anything. and we
happen to be that kind Of folks. 30
hero goes. We're sure always to be
n debt anyway. and one might rs
veil be hanged for a sheep a. lamb
Then you ask a number Of musi-
clans what kind of a piano Is best. II
you asked only one that would be all
light But you ask several Of them.
and that way lies madness. Each
tails. you Of one piano that u right.
No other one Is. Especially the one
recommended by the musician you
ssked yesterday-that one IL the last
sord in superlative worthlessnsss.
so after you have asked all the
nusioians you know you are where
eou began. plus a slight buxxing b.
ssakA the hatband.
Then you decide that you'd better
Vaek out dealer. % you start on the
rounds.
You are received with open arms
V each place and each dealer shows
eou what u without doubt the best
dano made. You believe 1t yourself.
Hhsn he says It that way. Besides.
- shows you an inferior piano that
. Just ~ good a. the better one. Get
nat, carefully! The inferior one II
lust ~ good ~ tho other. every Bit
made By the same people.
But you'd be foolish to buy one Of
Ao cheaper ones. Il II decidedly IN
srior, though It has the Same work
nAnship and material and guaranty
~ the other. Don't waste your time
Tying to understand how this can be.
nut It must bs. They all tall you that
No piano shop II complete without
soms good pianos and some Other
Seofer ones that are equal to Tie best
MY they are not
You tell one dealer that yoa want Q
layer piano. He gets out selection
- The 0anders Retreat From the
DaFnyard.' or Moonlight on the Pump
- . descriptive piece called Cats on
~ Back Fence Just some little thing
NE that Il y In . bon. and whom II
. unsolle1 you 80 something that
DslEs IKE. pisoe Of wrapping paper
Aa4 lad been shot at with . mussle-
pading army muskst used for busk'
hot. Yea and every shot had struck
TIA salesman places this embroid-
~ pattern in the Jigger IN front.
SAsrs the cuckoo doors open. and
psoeesds TO wigsle his feet while he
aystsEiously manipulatss some psr
Dsetly simple levers under his hand.
Ehen, With writings OF agony. ~ II his
whole soul were going into his job.
- works the thing through. You are
Arilled and you firmly believe that u
~ hest plano made.
THO usxt day, or the same day
Veu s&aad the strxin. you 90 to an
Oehu lDaler and he does the same
Ain.. They all tell you tho price II
cine hundred and nifty dollars. But
1ou . fortified with stories Of how
omitt got two hundred dollars on
erom he list price on his piano and
Sones had one practically given to
him 70 keep the other dealers from
selling him one. In fact. II one BE-
Bowed all that ones friends have said
enc would be led to think that piano
costs 20 little to mako that 1t 10
cheaper to hire some one to haul them
away and burn them than to pay taxes
on them in the storeroom.
"One thing you will learn In each
place II that the best musician In the
eity-always q different person, by the
way-has Just bought . piano OF that
particular make and recommends II
highly to everybody.
II must not neglect to tell you that
the salesman finds. just ~ you are
starting to leave, a piano he had for
eottsn. Just before he rings the bell
70 send for the elevator that they use
70 haul passengers on he thinks-
With Q clap Of his hand to his fore
hsad-of . piano that has Just come
n. II has been used for about fifteen
minutes somewhere. and for that res
son he will knock seven hundred dol
lArs OF the price. Don't ever start .
music store without . piano Of that
soet IN stock. II would be . poor
store.
~Thsce are some Of the things you