Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — Even in Slam. [ARTICLE]

Even in Slam.

Examining commercial possibilities In Slam, a commercial report makes It clear that the country offers a larger unexploited field for piano manufacturers than for the makers of phonographs. With the exception of the phonograph Siam still prefers the musical Instrument of Its ancestors. The Siamese orchestra contents .itself with gongs, native harmonicas, hnd so forth. Indeed, the only western instruments known to the Siamese are the piano, a small portable organ, and the phonograph. The piano and the organ, however, are rare,, and are kept more for ornament than for anything else. But the phonograph is popular and Is already to be found In nearly every Siamese family that is able to afford it.