Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1879 — A Sliver Anniversary. [ARTICLE]

A Sliver Anniversary.

Yesterday afternoon, the 16th inst., the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company celebrated by a dinner at Young’s Hotel the twenty-fifth anniversary of the commencement of their business, which by its own merits has grown to large proportions. At the start the capacity of their works was two or three melodeons per week, the best of which sold for about one hundred dollars each; their present capacity is over two’ hundred cabinet organs per week, and they are most of the time behind orders, while their best productions now command five hundred dollars each, and,in exceptional cases, several times this amount. In numbering their instruments they have reached 104,000, having actually made and sold nearly that number. Organs of their make have obtained an extraordinary reputation all over the world, and are sold in every civilized country where the tariff is not so high as to be prohibitory. Musicians recognize is them a distinguishing excellence in quality of tone, the result, in large measure perhaps, of peculiar skill in voicing reels, an art which originated with this company. But in every respect it has always been a principle with them to make in each detail the best instruments possible and to sell them as low as possible. The skillful carrying out of this policy has resulted in this great success. —Boston Journal.