Gear's illustrated catalogue of wood and iron working machinery (1872)
A.S. Gear, Gear, A. S · Boston : Printed at A.S. Gear's printing office, 62 Sudbury Street · leaf 183
I generally find some portable reedinstrument, good or bad, old or new. The Mason & Hamlin are the sweetest-toned, the most manageable, and, even whenthey bear the mark of age, the most reliable, and least liable to get out of order. The advantages of the Automatic Swell arenot approached by… … Organ. Bench 3Sro. 1. Length, 21 in. Width, 12 in. Height, 24 in. instruments; that no other instruments of the class in the worldare voiced with nearly equal skill. This advantage is largely instru-mental in their superiority in tone. Sounding and Tube-Boards.—In pianofortes the sotmdmg-board has…
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