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 419
hands an action pliant and easy, which permits him at will to be powerftil or light, vehement and graceful. These pianos areat the same time the itistrument of the virtuoso, itiho wishes to astonish by the eclat of his execution, and of the artist who applieshis talent to the music of thought and…
