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By KATHLEEN ELIZABETH STEACY'
"NO art," wrote Sir John Stainer, thirty years ago, is exercising such a strong influence over the human race at the present time as music." And with the passing of these thirty years, the truth of this assertion has been intensified.
Literally, music is "as old as the hills"—the yearning of the soul for some adequate means of expression dates back to Adan and this yearning has been the incentive for the many improvement and inventions that marked the progress of musical instruments from the earliest days down this year of grace, 1917.
The stretched string was the first foreshadowing of the piano. Back, far, far back in the days of the Pharaohs, 3,000 years before Christ, the principle of the stopped string was known in Egypt, and in the sixth century B.C. it was brought into Greece by Pythagoras in the form of a long box of thin wood with a bridge fixed at each end over which a wire or catgut string was stretched. This was the Monochord.
In the Book of Daniel is a description of a musical instrument that very well fits the modern piano. It had a sound board over which strings of different lengths were stretched with a wrest plank for the tuning pins; the player set the strings in vibration by hitting them with two leather covered hammers, using more or less force according as he wished to vary the intensity of tone. This dulcimer, which is the real prototype of the piano, was laid on a table or other support, and is still used in this twentieth century by the semi-Oriental Gypsies wandering through Hungary and Transylvania. Had the ancients seen the earliest pianos, they would probably have termed them "mechanically played dulcimers," and have dubbed the music obtained therefrom, had they known our modern slang, "canned music."
And adown the ages, from those far away days, through many changes, inventions and improvements, some one of which caused the dulcimer to acquire legs, to the spinet in the sixteenth century, the clavichord that was Johann Sebastian Bach's favourite instrument two hundred years later, the harpsichord that Handel played, we come to the little cottage piano and the upright of England and Europe that were the immediate predeessors of the piano of to-day.
THESE two, the cottage and the upright, were of too light a build to produce either good quality of tone or any great volume of sound, and in this country neither obtained much of a foot hold. The square piano, as our grandmothers knew it, is a product of the new world; solid, massive, and with great volume of sound, it was impressive, even in the days when homes were built without the modern endeavour to save space.
Fifty years ago, when the newly federated provinces laid the foundation for a vast Dominion, a piano was the hall mark of wealth and refinement. Times have changed; to-day, the piano is a matter of common education.
But with the advent of apartments and flats, where space is measured by the inch, the square piano had to go, and the modern upright came to the front; it was marked, as the square had been, by good workmanship and quality; the cheap manufacturer did not touch it until the depression of trade in the United States in 1870. Then the factories across the line commenced turning out cheap uprights in thousands, and quantity took the place of quality. Straightway people of culture and wealth passed the upright by, and first-class firms turned their attention to the development and production of the grand piano.
IN Canada we are not given to the cheap article in quantities. We have an old country preference for quality, and our manufacturers, seeing their opportunity, were not slow in taking advantage of it. They went on developing the upright; each year, each month adding some new invention, some little improvement. They stood for quality, honesty of construction, purity of tone, volume; and the Canadian upright piano stands for all these, the best work, the best quality that can be put into a piano. The continental countries never evolved an up-to-date piano. They are content to swell the import trade. The United States reached the height of their fame as upright piano manufacturers about 1870, and Canada has had, since then, no competition other than that among her own manufacturers, and this has, naturally, been the cause of greater efforts on the part of her own firms.
The upright piano made in Canada to-day stands on its merits, without a rival, without a superior.
Since Before Confederation
Long before Confederation was planned the first Heintz- man Piano was built. For nearly sixty years, three gen- erations of Heintzman’s have been building pianos in Canada. For over half a century every thought and effort has been concentrated on one ideal—to make ‘The World's Best Pianos.” The result is that the
Heintzman & Co. Art Piano $274,"
Upright now stands pre-eminent among the pianos of the world. It is the piano by which all other Lpaote are judged. It is the choice of the World's wreatest artists and critics, than whom there is no better judge.
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—in Canadian Homes
Karn Pianos and Organs have held first place as instruments of superior quality—superior in tone, touch and magnificent wearing qualities.
The KARN Piano
is the ideal piano for the home. It is built fora lifetime of usage and enjoyment—to own one is to possess the best.
KARN-MORRIS PIANO AND ORGAN COMPANY, LIMITED Largest Manufacturers of Musical Instruments in the British Empire
Head Office ; " Factories : Woodstock, Ontarie Pe Waedateck and Lietoived
The Newcombe Piano
Founded about 1870 by Octavius A. Newcombe and ine corporated in 1900, The Newcombe Piano Co., Limited, is one of the pioneer piano manufacturers in Canada.
Newcombe Pianos have a big reputation for volume and musical beauty of tone. Permanence of tone is en- sured with all Newcombe Pianos, because each is equipped with the Howard Straining Rod which won the Silver Medal at Jamestown, Va., in 1907.
Newcombe Pianos were awarded the Gold Medal at the Paris Exhibition in 1900.
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