Cabinet Or Parlor Organs

These have beoome the most popular i of large musical instrumenta. There are now about two hundred and fifty I makers of them in the United States, who produce more tlian forty thousand organs per annum. Most of these are very poor instrumente, This is naturally so, because there are few articles in the manufacture of whieli so much saving 1 can be made by the xise of inferior, improperly prepared material, and inferior workmanship, and yet which, when ished, show so little difference to the average purehaser. The important paris of an organ, made as well as they can be, cost two or three times as mncl) as If made as low as possible. Yet, when th ! organ is done it is not easy from casual hearings to teil the difference b )- ! tween the best and a veiy poor one. Especially when shown by one who knows how to over up defecte, to one who has not special sliill in such matters, itis not difficult to malee a poor oi'gan appear a I good one. The temptation to makers, then, to ; produce, nt a fraction of the cost, an I gan which will sell almost as well as a good one, is almost irresistible. Henee I the fac that so few good organs are made and so many poor ones, and tliat the country is flooded with peddlers and dealers selling these poor organs, which I pay sucli large profit3. Tlie buyer of the poor organ does not fail to find out i his mistake after a while. Tlie thin, i j reedy tone of his cheap organ scon 1 j comes offensive; it works noisily and j roughly, is constar tly out of order, aud 1 becomes useless by the time a really good instrument wóuld have been get( ting into its prime. A good organ ought to last a generation, at least; a poor one may last íive years, with considerable tin kering, or may break down much soouer. There is one safe way. Get a genuine production of one of the very best ' makers and you cannot go astray. Ámong these undoubtedly stands pre-eminent the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., whose I organs are so well known that other ; makers are generally content to claim i that they can make as good an organ as ! the Mason & Hatnlin. They invented j and introduced the Cabinet or Parlor Organ in its improved form, started with 1 and liave always closely adhered to the poliey of making only the best work, have shown such skill as bas given their organs the highest reputation, not only in this cotintry but also in Europe. At the Great Exposition at Vienna, in competition with eighty of the best makers j in the world, they 'obtained the highest medals. To enumérate the competitions at which they have received similar honors would be to give a list of the fairs at which they have exhibited ; aud i to mentí on the prominent musicians who I recommend their organs as unequaled would really be to give a very good list of the most illustrious musical names in the country, with a good representation in Europe. One who obtains a Mason & Hamlin i Cabinet Orgau need have no doubt that he has the best instrument of its class