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The Century illustrated monthly magazine . HAVE YOUUSED PEARS^ ?. Smith (who has talked incessantly during the performance.)—You are not going to stop, Miss Clarissa? Aliss Clarissa — Oh, no ! Only use the Soft Stop so that your Conversation may not be interrupted ! Our Patent Soft Stop IN PIANO PRACTICE so reduces sound that it is not heard outside the room,being just loud enough for the player. Not a soft pedal, but if soft pedal also isused the sound is not heard across the room ; not a damper, the tone being vibratoryand ringing, though light in volume. Action and feel of keys not changed.
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . HAVE YOUUSED PEARS^ ?. Smith (who has talked incessantly during the performance.)—You are not going to stop, Miss Clarissa? Aliss Clarissa — Oh, no ! Only use the Soft Stop so that your Conversation may not be interrupted ! Our Patent Soft Stop IN PIANO PRACTICE so reduces sound that it is not heard outside the room,being just loud enough for the player. Not a soft pedal, but if soft pedal also isused the sound is not heard across the room ; not a damper, the tone being vibratoryand ringing, though light in volume. Action and feel of keys not changed. Savesnine-tenths the wear on hammers, thus preserving the tone from deteriorating inpractice and saving it for playing. HOWEVER FAR AWAY YOU LIVE we make it as easy to deal with us as inBoston, take your old piano in exchange, adjust terms of payment to reasonableconvenience. Our Offer.— Send you piano on approval; after trying it, if you do not wantit, send it back and we pay railway freights both ways. WRITE FOR 100-PAGE CATALOGUE AND IMPORTANTINFORMAT
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