, cor. Franklin, N. Y.
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[Illustration: STEINWAY & SONS' FACTORY, OCCUPYING THE ENTIRE BLOCK
ON 4TH AVE, FROM 52D TO 53D ST.]
STEINWAY & SONS'
~GOLD MEDAL~
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~PATENT OVERSTRUNG GRAND, SQUARE, AND UPRIGHT~
~PIANO-FORTES~,
HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE
First Premium at the Great World's Fair in London, 1862,
FOR
~POWER, FULL, CLEAR, BRILLIANT, AND SYMPATHETIC TONE,~
IN COMBINATION WITH
Excellent Workmanship shown in Grand and Square Pianos.
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There were 290 Piano-Fortes entered for competition from all parts of
the world, and in order to show what sensation these instruments have
created in the Old World, we subjoin a few extracts from leading
European papers.
FROM THE "_London News of the World_."
"These magnificent pianos, manufactured by Messrs. STEINWAY &
SONS, of New York, are, without doubt, the musical gems of the
Exhibition of 1862. They possess a tone that is the most liquid and
bell-like we have ever heard, and combine the qualities of brilliancy
and great power, without the slightest approach to harshness," &c.
Mr. HOCHE, one of the most competent musical critics of France,
writes to the "_Presse Musicale_," Paris: "The firm of STEINWAY &
SONS exhibits two pianos, both of which have attracted the special
attention of the jurors. The square piano fully possesses the tone of a
grand--it sounds really marvelously; the ample sound, the extension, the
even tone, the sweetness, the power, are combined in these pianos as in
no piano I have ever seen.
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