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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 75, 17 January 1872, Page 1

itaicaL MUSICAL AND MECHANICAL. ME. ALFEED OAKBT, TEACHER OF TnE ORGAN, PIANOFORTE, HARMONIUM CORNET, AND SINGING. Late Pianist to her Gkaqh the Duchess op Invebness, and Pekfokmeb at the Soikbes given by the Mabchioness o* Londondebey, and the most distinguished of the Nobility and and Gentry of England. CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER to a Band of forty talented Instrumentalists in Melboubne for Thirty Concerts ; also Leadeb of a Brass Band of ten perforinera for several years in the same colony. Formerly ORGANIST at St. Mark's Church, Collingwood, Melbourne. MUSIC COMPOSED & ARRANGED for all Orchestral Instruments, from Violin© Primo, to Grosße Caisse. Compositions corrected for the Press. The USE of the EXPRESSION STOP taught in One Lesson, the mechanism of this and the Percussion Action being illustrated by a dissected Harmonium of ten stops. TUNING. Pianofortes, Organs, and Harmoniums Tuned, not by the old Stanhope method, but on the principle of Equal Temperament (as adopted by Eeaed, Beoadwood, and Collabd), the intervals being divided according to the number of vibrations, as indicated by the Sirene, and the apparatus of M. Savaet. MECHANICAL. Mr. Oakey, Inventor of and Performer on the " Oechesteina," begs to state that, in London, he underwent a thorough training with his father (who held one of the highest positions afc Messrs. Collaed and Collaeb's) in the art of covering hammers, making the small work, aud ' finishing and regulating Pianofortes. In the course of a long practice iv Tuning, &c, he has studied all the makers' various mechanisms, there being upwards of thirty different actions. In order to effect repairs on the most reasonable terms, Mr. Oakey has erected a Workshop, and purchased all the most receut inventions in Tools, including a Lathe, Drilling, Boring, aud Morticing Machines. He can therefore confidently say that he now possesses by far the largest set of Musical Tools, and Pianofortemaking Machinery, in New Zealand. In addition, he hus in stock varieties of Felt iov hammer covering (this he can effect at English prices) Leathers and Cloths for Actions, Dampers, Hoppers, Levers, and various purts of Pianoforte mechanism; Smith's Patent Piano Wire; Harmonium Reeds ; and all the requisites for the repairs of Organs, Harmoniums, Concertinas, Flutiuas, Organ Accordions ; also ior Enterpeons, and every kind ol self-acting instrument Mr. Oakey respectfully invites inaction of his Workshop at any time, feeliug confident that he can render a good old Pianoi'orco almost equal to new, and effect Repairs, &c, cheaper, and infinitely better, than any peripatetic Tuner. ALFEED OAKEY, Beidge-steeet, four doors from M'Gee's Hotel. 1374 Business Notices;* WOOL, FLAX, etc. npHE Undersigned are CASH PUEX CHASERS of WOOL, FLAX, &c, or will make liberal ad runcos on the same consigned to their firm in London. 1581 MOEEISON, SCLANDEES, AND Co. npHE Undersigned has been appointed a -*- LAND BROKER, Under the " Land Transfer Act, 1870." 1126 War. Stavebt and Co. MESSES. OUETIS BEOTHEES, LICENSED BROKERS under "The Land Transfer Act," are prepared to brinj; Properties under its operation, and to effect Ti .. .:sfers, on the scale of fees provided by the Act. 1088 Jloueg to £enfc* MONET TO LEND on ample Security at Eight per cent., in Hums of £1,000 and upwards. 1328 Adams asd Kinguhw.