History of the American pianoforte : its technical development, and the trade . onscale, taken out on March 8th, 1887, anH No. 357,436,which was granted on February 8th, 1887, for a pianis-simo pedal. They will be recognized by these titles inthe illustrations. The Sohmer & Company bijou grand was constructedso as to give a more symmetrical shape and a better ap-pearance to grand pianos. Unlike the regulation style,this instrument is semi-circular or cycloid-shaped, withsome points of distinction as shown, and presents a verypleasing appearance. Patent No. 358,946, which wastaken out for certa
History of the American pianoforte : its technical development, and the trade . onscale, taken out on March 8th, 1887, anH No. 357,436,which was granted on February 8th, 1887, for a pianis-simo pedal. They will be recognized by these titles inthe illustrations. The Sohmer & Company bijou grand was constructedso as to give a more symmetrical shape and a better ap-pearance to grand pianos. Unlike the regulation style,this instrument is semi-circular or cycloid-shaped, withsome points of distinction as shown, and presents a verypleasing appearance. Patent No. 358,946, which wastaken out for certain new and useful improvements inpianofortes, I have named a reverberation scale, for thereason that it refers to a system of scaling or stringadjustment exemplified in a grand in the drawing given,where auxiliary strings are arranged in conjunction withthe regular strings for the purpose of giving forth rever-beratory or sympathetic waves of sound, thus augment-ing the general tone results of each unison, and conse-quently the ensemble for obvious reasons. The auxiliary. •4 Q W Ph o t- g 00 1—1 ?H r/; oj QO fe S» < w Ph a SQ r4* o Q <% »H « W * K O Oi
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