TEMPLE OF ORPHEUS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14822, 13 November 1913, Page 12

TEMPLE OF ORPHEUS.

DRESDEN PIANO COMPANY'S EXHIBIT.

Lovers of music will be attracted by the strains of music coming from the Dresden Piano Company's marquee on the main avenue, only a few yards from the secretary's office. Hero ar© to bo seen, and heard, a number of beautifully sounding pianos, as well as organs and gramaphones. 'Tis truly tho Temple of Orpheus. Facing the doorway, upon a dais, is a fine-looking Steinway horizontal grand piano, finished in a case of rosewood. Another piano is one of Richard Lipp and Son's upright grands, in a case of handsome walnut. Another piano Is on© by Join Broadwood nnd Sons, an upright grand in a rosewood case, with ' satinwood banding, an£near it is a Sames upright grand in a walnut case. Then there are a Bohm upright grand in a handsome walnut case, and another Bohm in a walnut case with Chippendale Tegs. Cottage pianos aro" represented by a Weissner in a walnut caso with satinwood handing, and a Kirchner with gold incised lines on tho top door An object of interest is a ' Collinson mechanical player- This instrument possesses all the latest improvements, and although of medium price compares favourably with tlie most expensive players produced. The organs in

St. ins I,oan - ng " *_ Thdr d *»P. ** m__va^ n _ be heard wer-ORUing So "™' ay " , ThoS<? ™wn«? f Cata U '° of tho 'vorld-re-cT, S *"""! °_ Bell ant - Co- Gu-elph, Canada, and the Imperial Organ Com- -"??' C , anada ' Th, 's is the dnv of tho yananhone, and no. musical* exhibit Aouia oo complete without specimens ol th _ popular favourite, and interest t?J' ."V 0 be nro ""s«l by representaoj He wen-known brand "His -»iasu-rs \oice." produced hv tho uramaphone Company, Ltd., London. „„,' _ Vno K exhibit is sot off by choice p..lns. with the result that the"interior »" t-ie marquee is at once a rest both tor the eve nnd the car. It is a ->u_ca in n desert of industrialism, and tho man or woman tired of witnessing co m-css numbers of -sheep and cattle and implement unon implement of agriculture and industry, cannot seek a •«.er Kfu-re or more comnleto chan~-> r_.«V n _- ' t * uiot environment „f the Dresden P.n.no Company's exh;!,,': tiiih its atmosphere of restful music. '