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PUBLIC NOTICES. 7\TAGC> LABOUR EXCHANGE, Green Island. Orders from Farmers and all Employers of Labour punctually attended to. ALLAN 1 * CO. PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OP 187 8. THE HIGHEST AWARD. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS PATENT SOSTENENTE PIANOS. Paris, 1878. THE HIGHEST AWARD— THE CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR ; THE GOLD MEDAL (PAcade"mieNationale); And also THE SILVER MEDAL j Have been accorded to JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' 18 WIGMORE STREET, LONDON, W., For the superiority of their Pianos exhibited at the PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION op 1878. " There is but one class of Gold Medals for the Exhibition, and the decoration of the Cross of the Legion of Honour constitutes a superior recompense." — Extraot from the Special Report signed by M. A. Fetis, the Official Reporter of the Musical Juries. The value of this award is still further enhanced by the fact that the Decoration was CONFERRED ON NO OTHER British Pianoforte Manufacturer. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' PATENT SOSTENENTE PIANOS. The principal of the previous Honours gained by the Brinsmead Pianos are : The Diploma of Honour and Gold Medal, South Africa, 1877 The Grand Medal of Honour and Diploma of Merit, Philadelphia, 1876 The Diploma of Honour, Paris, 1874, and the Honorary Membership of the National Academy of France The Gold Medal, Paris, 1869 The Diploma of Extraordinary Merit, Netherlands Intercolonial Exhibition, 1869 The Medal of Honour, Paris, 1867 The Prize Medal, London, 1862, &c. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' SOSTENENTE PIANOS, With the Perfect Check Repeater Action. Patented 1862, 1868, 1871, 1875, and 1879, throughout Europe and America. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' PATENT SOSTENENTE PIANOS, "Paris, Nov. 4, 1878. " I have attentively examined the beautiful pianos of Messrs John Brins- j mead and Sons that are exhibited at the Paris International Exhibition of 1878. I consider them to be exceptional in the j ease with which graduations of sound can be produced, from the softest to the most j powerful tones. These excellent pianos merit the approbation of all artists, as the tone is full as well as sustained, and the | touch is of perfect evenness throughout its entire range, answering to every requirement of the pianist." Ch. Gounod. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' Patent Sostenente Pianos. " The highest praise is certainly due to Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons for the complete success which has crowned their efforts to produce, on the most simple principles, a perfectly even, smooth, and sensitive repetition touch. The purity of the tone and the excellent mechanism of the Pianos exhibited by them in the Paris Exhibition, called forth warm eulogies from all the competent critics." [John Stainer. M.A., Mus. Doo^, Member of the International Jury of the Paris Exhibition, 1878. JOHN BRINSMEA.D and SONS' PATENT SOSTENENTE PIANOS. Illustrated London News. « The French papers have been unanimous in their expressions of admiration of these splendid instruments. The grands especially I have enchanted the Parisian professors and amateurs of music by their noble sonorous- ! ness, their enormous power, and the sympathetically voice-like quality of tone. The touch, also, is beautifully light, elastic, and certain, so that many pianists of every nation, from the Abbe" Lizt downwards who nave tried these instruments, have highly complimented the enterprising manufaccurers on their success." JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS ' Patent Sostenente Pianos. "I feel great pleasure in bearing testimony to the excellency of the Pianofortes made by Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons. Their tone is rich, powerful, and equal, and their check repeater aotion moat ingenius, successful, and valuable." Edward J. Hopkins, Organist and Director of the Choir, Temple Church, London. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SOWS' Patent Sostenente Pianos. " I have pleasure in expressing my opinion that the Paris Exhibition Model Grand Pianofortes of Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons are unsurpassed. The tone is deliciously sweet, sustained, and extraordinarily powerful} the touch responds to the faintest and most trying strains on it, and the workmanship is simply perfect." W. KUHE. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' PATENT SOSTENENTE PIANOS. "Paris, the Bth Sept. 1878. "We, the undersigned, certify that, after having Been and most conscientiously examined the English Pianos at the Universal Exhibition of 1878, find that the palm belongs to the Grand Pianos of the house of Brinsmead." Nicholas Rtjbinstien, Antoine de Kontski, Court Pianist to the Emperor of Germany, and Chevalier of several Orders,