Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1875 — Cabinet or Parlor Organs. [ARTICLE]

Cabinet or Parlor Organs.

These have become the most popular ot large musical instruments. There are now about two hundred and fifty makers of them in the United States, who produce more than forty thousand organs per annum. Most of these are very poor instruments. This is naturally so, because there are few articles in the manufacture of which so much saving can be made by the use of inferior, improperly-prepared material and inferior workmanship, and yet which, when finished, show so little difference to the average purchaser. The important parts of ah organ, made as well as they can be, cost two or three times as much as if made as low as possible. Yet, when the organ is done, it is not easy, from casual hearings, to tell the difference between the best and a very poor one. Especially when shown by one who knows how to cover up defects, to one who has not special skill in such matters, it is not difficult to make a poor organ appear a good one. to makers, then, to produce, at, a fraction of the cost, an organ which will sell almost as well as a good one is almost irresistible. Hence the fact that so few good organs are made and so many poor ones, and that the country is flooded with peddlers and dealers selling these poor organs, which pay such large profits. The buyer of the poor organ does not fail to find opt his mistake after a

while. The thin, reedy tone of his cheap organ soon becomes offensive, it works noisily and rough, is constantly out of order, and becomes useless by the time a really good instrument would have been getting into its prime. * A good organ ought to last a generation, at least; a poor one may last five years, with considerable tinkering, or may break down much sooner. There is one safe way. G%t a genuine production of one of the very best makers and yon cannot go astray. Among these undoubtedly stands pre-eminent the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., whose organs are so well known that other makers are generally content to claim that they can make as good an organ as the Mason & Hamlin. They invented and introduced the Cabinet or Parlor Organ in its improved form, started with and have always closely adhered to the policy of making only the best work, have shown such skill as has given their organs the highest reputation, not only in this country but also in Europe. At the Great Exposition at Vienna, in competition with eighty of the best makers in the world, they obtained the highest medals. To enumerate the competitions at which they have received similar honors would be to give a list of the fairs at which they have exhibited; and to mention the prominent musicians who recommend their organs as unequaled would really be to give a very good list of the most illustrious musical names in the country, with a good representation in Europe. One who obtains a Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organ need have no doubt that he has the best instrument of its class which can be made. —New York Independent. _ _ _