Gimbel Brothers
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Gimbel Brothers
Wednesday, September 27, 1916.
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Staunchest Friend of the Autotone,
Caruso, Will Receive $200,000 for Singing in Thirty
Concerts in Buenos Ayres Next Summer
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Caruso for years has held exclusively to pianos and pla3jer-pianos of Hafdman, Peck &
Co. make.
To those attuned to musical perfection only an instrument approaching their purity of
tone is pleasing. And only such an instrument is safe for tfhem to use.
How long could Caruso or Mme. Dcstinn or Mme. JjLlda or M. Sammarco continue a
drawing card if a note in their scale became flat or untrue? Yet the human voice learns
tricks unconsciously to the owner and persists in them.
An audience would catch it first! He himself migrA not have discovered the calamity
to his voice, but if Caruso flatted on two successive appearances his pre-eminence would be
lost. And his power of fortune-making.
Messrs. Hardman, Peck & Co., New York, make tjvo lines
Hardman Autotone Harrington Autotone
Both are elegant? both pureof tone; both beautifully cased in mahogany. The Har
rington is less costly yet the artistic, costly group.
It will satisfy an improving musical taste for yeajrs and years. One cannot tire of it,
nor long for nobler tones. ,
These Grand Opera Stars Endorse the Autotone:
Buenos Ayres is a marvelous city developed to high degree, commercially, structur
ally and aesthetically. Buenos Ayres has the most wonderful newspaper office in the world,
ft was in Buenos Ayres that the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" ws first sung. And now
.pearly seven thousand dollars a night; for thirty Caruso concerts!
Could such a voice as his be entrusted to the accompaniment of a faulty piano? Could
his temperament stand other than the most perfect of player-pianos?
Talk of the care an actress gives her face and form ! It is slight to the carefulness of the
Grand Opera Star as to voice.
The Unit-Built, Player-Piano Excels
Some things stand alone so thoroughly best of their class that other things claiming to '
, be of the same class are not fairly comparable.
You cannot compare the Boston & Maine railroad with the Pennsylvania.
You cannot compare the young wife's first loaf of bread with the splendid loaf made by
a womanjf long experience.
' You cannot compare other Player-Pianos with the Autotone because the Autotone
being produced by truly scientific procedure is a thing vastly more true and perfect
than can be produced by screwing a player-mechariism'of one man's make into the case
of another man's piano because cavity as well as substance are necessary to produce pure
musical tones, and to make a trueNplayer-piano the piano soul and case and bperating mech
anism must be built up as a unit; thereby making k possible for case resonance and the
chamber of the interior to co-ordinate with the scientific scale wires and hammers, dampers
and so on in making a pure tone from each note or chord struck. -
We know of no other player-piano used andericlorsed by a galaxy of Grand Opera V
1 singers whose power and purity of tone make their voices their fortune. ' '
Mme. Luis Tetrazzini
Aittonio Scotti
Charles Dalmorcs
Mme. Emmy Destinn
Mme. Bernico de Pasqu&H
Mme. Olive Fremstad
Giovanni Zenatello
Mme Lilla Snelling
Mme. Alice Zeppilli
Mme. Jeanne Maubourg
Andrea P. de Segurola
Maurice Renaud
Charles GUibert
Rinaldo Grass!
Alexandre Bonci
Mme. Gerville Reache
In offering the
Mme. Anna Meitschik
Orcncio Constantino
Richard Hageman
Mme. Giannina Russ
Mme. Elvira.de Hidalgo
Adam Didur
Leon Rothicr
Pasquale Amato
John McCormack
Enrico Caruso
Amadeo Bassi
Mme. Maria Labia
Mme. Henrietta Wakefield
Mme. Marie Mattfield
Clarence Whitehill
Mme. Eleonora. de Cisneros
Mme. Frances Alda
Mme. Lina Cavalicri
Riccardo Martin
Hermann Jadlowker
Rodolfo Ferrari
Karl Jorn
Pol Plancon
Mme. Bella Alten
Mme. Carmen Melia
Leo Slezak
Mme. Jane Noria
Mme. Jeanne Jomelli
Cleofonte Campanini
, Dinah Gilly
G. Mario Sammarco
Marie. Delma
"Harrington" Autotone at $495
on the Gimbel Club Plan of $2.50 weekly payments (no interest; a clean saving of $107.50'
from the regular time price)
We offer an instrument comparable only with the whole Hardman line.
And yet, the economical Gimbel Club Plop so lessens selling wastes that the instrument
costs you about the usual price for. inartistic players. ;
That is our case.
We will be permitted to continue this offejr for only a limited time.
It is an incomparable bargain.
Were the price high and the terms hard, ft wouldbe still the better bargain, as against
any player-piano you know a ten-to-bne better bargain than to be cajoled into buying other -than
a very good one at any price, no matter how little. ,
The Milton Piano Co. also co-operates id this Gimbel Club enabling us to offer the .
"Milton" Upright Piano at $270
one of the fine styles exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. .
Pay $1.25 weekly on the. piano with up interest or extras. .Club members save $86.50.
Either instrument is delivered at your &ome and even kept tuned for a year free as
'part of the proposition. , ' '.'.
Free piano stool; free bencjiwithi an lutotone. And some -music, rolls. jAnd a teacher
to helpyou really to play a player. v ,. . , i '
Prominent Musicians Act
As a Tone Jury
Prof. William Silvano Thunder, organist of the
Cathedral and master of piano, organ and harmonyand
Prof. Stanley Muschamp, organist of Spring Garden
Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, and accompanist Phila
delphia Choral Society,
have agreed to personally test every instrument for
tone, balance, voicing, and to certify in writing your Jnstru
inent, '
"However perfect any make o'f goods it is still a comfort
to know that what you buy has been approved after per
sonal inspection by experts that yoti know.
JE If a club member dies, the family keeps the instrument without having, a cent tcf- pay we've had
, cases where only $40 to $100 had been paid. This agreement is explained and writteminto our contract
-with you.
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This Offer Cannot be Long Continued f
.' There is a tiny booklet setting forth the plan more fully. We shall be very glad to mail you one. Simply fiH in the .Coupon.
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Gimbel Brothers, Philadelphia, are factory representatives of
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Hardman, Harrington, Vose, Packard, Milton dndfonreid w
Pianos and Players
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Mail This Coupon
Gimbel Brothers,
Philadelphia
Without putting me under shy
obligation, please send me pic
tures and descriptions of these.,
Harrington instruments, with
fuller particulars about ike club.
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