Story of the Blind Singer and the "Homo"-toned Haddorff Piano Suppose you were a noted singer, accustomed to giving concerts before critical audiences. Suppose that on every occasion you should insist on having a concert grand piano for accompanying you. Now suppose that on a particular night the tones of the piano accompanying you were peculiarly full, pure, and evenly brilliant throughout, helping to make your singing a greater success than ordinary. Suppose you were not able to see this piano during your singing, but that at the close of your recital you should ask the program committee to take you to this "wonderful grand." Suppose, lastly, you should find that this wonderful tone proceeded not from a grand piano at all, but from an upright. Such was the experience of a well known blind barstone who recently toured the coast. The upight piano whose tones had so pleased and charmed him was a Haddorff, an instrument noted for the evenness and power of its tone. Now the singer has a proviso in his demands: "A concert grand unless you can furnish a Haddorff upright." HADDORFF The Piano with the "Homo"-Vibrating THE HADDORFF Sounding Board is constructed according to a special formula, so that the same rich beauty and volume of sound that the best note receives is also given to every other note. This uniquely even and full-volumed tone throughout is named the "Homo"-tone (from the Greek meaning like or even tone,) and means to music what sterling means to silver. Write for name of dealer and for "Homo"-tone folder. HADDORFF PIANO COMPANY Makers of Grands, Uprights and Player-Pianos-Rockford, Illinois When writing to advertisers please mention THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE. KNOW "HOW MUCH" BEFORE YOU BUILD HOUSE building is about the only im portant undertaking to which a man will bind himself without knowing exactly for how much he binds himself. Yet there need be no uncertainties-no disagreeable surprises-no expense which was not provided for at the very beginning. It is merely a matter of placing the whole responsibility for your building upon the shoulders of one responsible concern which knows how. For ten years Hoggson Brothers have applied scientific management to building operation. The Hoggson Method ensures these advantages: 1. It fixes in advance the cost to you. 2. It limits in advance the profit to us. 5. 3. It settles in advance the date of completion. 4. It relieves you of every executive responsibility. It obligates us to lay before you for approval every detail of design and materials, before we go ahead, thus ensuring conformity to your wishes. As a final protection to you every condition of our contract is guaranteed by a bond. There is no other way by which you can ensure the foregoing advantages; and there is no other way by which you can ensure so large a return for your investment. If you contemplate building, we shall be glad to furnish complete particulars. Our contracts at present in force cover 19 different states. When writing to advertisers please mention THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE. TELE ELEPHONE users make more local than long distance calls yet to each user comes the vital demand for distant communication. No individual can escape this necessity. It comes to all and cannot be foreseen. No community can afford to surround itself with a sound-proof Chinese Wall and risk telephone isolation. No American State would be willing to make its boundary line an impenetrable barrier, to prevent telephone communication with the world outside. Each telephone subscriber, each community, each State demands to be the center of a talking circle which shall be large enough to include all possible needs of inter-communication. In response to this universal demand the Bell Telephone System is clearing the way for universal service. Every Bell Telephone is the Center of the System AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES When writing to advertisers please mention THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE. |