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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1913)
This time it is a player-piano citato The club will contain 50 members THE REASON WHY The most talked of and most successful piano event of the year is the Orkin Brothers 100 In augural Piano Club a club of 100 members. Now comes a player-piano club. A club of 50 members. An event that has to do with one of the greatest player-pianos in the world. With a player-piano that is known around the world. It is one of the pioneers of the player-piano industry. It was one of the first player-pianos made. It is now built in many of the largest piano-player manufactories in the world. There is no more distinguished or honorable manufacturing plant than this, no matter what the line of business may be. This player-piano is head and shoulders above any other player-piano now on the market best in mechanical construction. No other player-piano has made as much progress or as deep impress upon the musical world during the past four years as this player-piano. The price-the terms and special features of the club The club price for this player-piano is 467. 50 dollars. There is no interest no extras of any kind. r SRI AIM MA M7 a No interest to pay First Payment 00 iWeek No interest added to this i Mil COTYRIOriT I9ll BY-MA-RTN- Mc.CA-R-lC- The terms are 17.50 dollars ths first payment and 2 dollars a week without interest added. These player-pianos hav e never been sold for less than $650 with terms of $50 down and $15 a month, with interest added at the rate of 7 per cent. This is the first time, as far as our knowledge goes, that such trustworthy instruments have ever been offered for sale upon such popular terms as 17.50 dollars the first payment and 2 dollars a week without interest added. This player-piano is full size, upright grand, colonial design, and the player on the inside plays every key on the piano that is, these club player pianos are standard 88-note players and they play every note on the piano when the music roll is in motion. Then there is another point that should have special mention the tempo artist lever. This one single device puts the club player-piano in a class by itself. It is this little lever, operated by the right hand, that makes a great piano performer out of everyone. Instead of playing mechanically with the tempo artist lever you can play like a great pianist. With the tempo artist lever you can control the time of the music you are playing. With the tempo artist lever you give your playing every shade the composer intended. I ,et us suppose there is not another single device on the Club player-piano to make its player mechanism play like the human fingers (there are half a doen), let us discard them all, lave this one alone the tempo artist lever still we would say that this one feature alone places this club player-piano in a class by itself. The doin n. 1 1 ln inluwce thnt caus ed us to Inangurnte this player llano Hub was the Impress made by the player-piano upon the publ!" inlml. The player piano Is today a fac tor in the piano world. It has. within the past two years, grown In leap and hounds, and will, within the n three years, grow at a still faster ratio. One-half of the piano sold, will, within 3 years, be player-pianos, Iti our opinion. Already player-pianos can be had for M67.50-The Orklu Uro.s. elub player-piano. The player-piano Is a product of the times. The player-piano typi fies the axiom that necessity Is the mother of invention. For, had there not been a wide spread desire for music of a highe order; had there not been a deslr. on the part of more persona to personally produce music, tint would have been no player-piano. The piano being the lnstrumen' through which the highest forms of musle could find expression. Inventive nun -ft about to produce a ready and convenient means of playing It. KiTBt came the piano-player a clumsy box-like affair to be pushe i against a piano. For all Its Inconvenience, It had its day and served well its purpose. Tens of thousands of persons to day owe a good knowledge of music a well as a knowledge of good music to the inconveniences of piano players. Then came the player-piano even at the first a better device than the piano-player. Then came improvements. Im provements that looked towards be ter playing towards better expre urn towards playing that more nearly resembled human playing. With the result that the player piano of today represents first, all Lhat musical knowledge and scicm can produce in the way of an upright piano, and second, mechan ism built within It, by whloh mean overy one Is enabled to play readi! and skillfully. In other worda, necessity has tak en the modern upright piano and added to It an easy and delightful means of playing it. With the player-piano, the unskill ed can play. With the player-piano the music-hungry can satisfy them selves, though they may lack all knowledge of piano playing, and even those who can and do play well, can feast from the realm of music that not even the greatest master can acquire. Thus it ts we prepared for the triumph of the player-piano. It is to properly introduce, partly to emphasize on the player-piano question and partly to forecast the commanding pfai-e the player-piano is destined to take In the field of music, that we have planned this great player-piano club of, 100 mem bers. if yuu intend buying a player-piano do it now. You can own one of these player-pianos for $17.50 the first payment then $2 a week without interest added We w ant to again make mention of these terms. Lay aside the price 467.50 dollars and the cash saving it carries with it of 25 cents each and every week you pay faster than the regular terms of 2 dollars a week. But let us center your attention on these terms 17.50 dollars the first payment then 2 a week without interest added. If the Orkin Brothers player-piano club did not have another redeeming feature, this one of terms would carry it to success; 17.50 dollars the first payment then 2 dollars a w eek enables apyoire to buy the best the world affords in player-pianos and scarcely miss the money. The keynote of this whole club proposition is, best pianos best price best terms best everything. If you want an upright piano without the pi aver attchinent Join the Orkin brothers piano club That there can be no misunderstanding, let us again tell that i hundred and 77 dollars and 50 cents Include e er t h its the Orkin Broth ers piano club member has to pay. In other words, It is the Ol'TSIDK PRICE or the KXTltKMK I'HM'K The pianos are of the most reliable and tnjstv orthy sort worth .175 miliars eaeu. to sell tnem ana sell them qui gant.c dub. A club of loo nu mb, i the same advantages and privileges. We decided to sell the pianos i cents earh. We arranged to sell them WIT price asked. We placed the puynunis at S do aunt, and I dollar and 25 cents a w The price (ItTT.SO) Included ev any privilege extended members We arranged a VKAH'S KXCII A enables them to exchange their plan out meaning one peiiiiv's loss We got up a I. IKK ASSI K ANCK eels ALL I'AYMKM'S IN TflK KVK ber. ickly we planned and organized a gl- eaen and eer member to enjoy u this way. at 277 dollars and 50 IIOl'T ADDING INTKREST to the liars and 75 ce!s as the first uav- eek for the remaining payments, erything -charging nothing more for I NGK privilege for members, which ios at any time within one year with- KKATl'KK for members, whuih can- WT OK THK DKATII of a club mem Special attention will be given to correspondence and inquiries. Ad dress all communications to ORKIN BROS., Alliance, Neb. w . - . -- - - - - - - - - - . ' ' : E 1 Some of the well known makes of pianos from our regular lines that will be offered in connection with this great sale of pianos at a sub stantial reduction: Chickering & Son, Kurtzman, Ivers A Pond, Hunt ington, Sterling, Segerstrom, and Packard pianos. ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA (formerly the Bennett Co., Largest Dealers ol High Grade Pianos in the West) OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE