Excerpt from The Seventy-Second Anniversary Catalogue of Schomacker Grand and Upright Pianos and the Schomacker Angelopian Player-Piano, 1838-1910 O catalogue was ever submitted to the musical world descriptive of a piano that needs fewer words of introduction than the Schomacker. Not that it has been so lavishly advertised as many others but because it has been in continuous existence for seventy - two years and the history of the piano business discloses that no piano ever lived seventy-two years that had not actual merit as a basic and logical reason for its longevity. Seventy-two years is but a trifling period in the world's chronology but it is a long and exceedingly eventful one in musical history and the development of musical instruments. Today there are more than two hundred different pianos made in the United States alone and probably as many more in Europe. Seventy-two years ago there were probably but four and of these four the Schomacker was one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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