Haddorff mystery

[Clyde Hollinger]

Now, Don.  Fess up and tell everyone where you got this.  I know it's not
original with you.

Regards, Clyde

Don wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>         The career of the Haddorff pianos is by many in the art world
> regarded as phenomenal. These famous instruments encompass every form and
> attainment, including the Artistic Grands, Reproducing Pianos, Grand
> Reproducing Players, Player-pianos and uprights every phase of high grade
> piano manufacture, and the name of Haddorif is always the symbol of musical
> attainment. The attainment of power in a piano's name is a matter of such
> complexity of elements that to describe the way to that result in words is
> almost impossible. Haddorff pianos have so long stood as representatives of
> fine achievement in pianos that to refer to the evenness of tone, the
> responsiveness of action, and the charm of expression possible to the
> performer, would be to repeat that with which the piano world is already
> familiar. Haddorff pianos are recognized as models of piano artistry. They
> are instruments whose workings out have been, as is always the case with
> ambitious instruments, gradual and progressive through the years. The
> Haddorff scale is so finely shaded, and its tonal results so graduated,
> that there is no ear so acute as to detect where the dividing lines occur.
> And that is one of the triumphs of the scale draftsman work. It is the work
> of a master acoustician whose entire life has been devoted to piano
> development and the finest attainment of inborn skill and experience has
> found a culmination in the instruments that bear his name. Mr. C. A.
> Haddorff designed and created the first Haddorff piano.
>
>         The Haddorff sounding board is scientifically constructed with a
> view to obtaining the greatest resonance without in the least interfering
> with the clarity of tone and quality of tone power. Haddorff pianos are the
> results of the best material so carefully treated and adjusted and so
> finely finished in external and internal details that there is only reason
> for approval by the most critical. And this applies also to durability,
> giving to these instruments everything that the discriminating piano lover
> must demand, and insuring for the instrument itself the progressive career
> to which it was originally dedicated. The Haddorff player- piano is in
> every way the same creation as the Haddorff piano, equipped with the
> pneumatic action by which the utmost refinement of expression is easily
> possible. All of the effects possible to human interpretation are
> attainable with an accuracy absolutely dependable. The Haddorff Reproducing
> Piano is electrically controlled and is representative of the latest
> advance in this marvelous instrument by which the performances of the
> greatest pianist may be reproduced with fidelity to the most delicate tonal
> results of accent, tonal control and technique. Haddorif pianos have
> attained' an immovable place in the world of art, and they are everywhere
> recognized for the influence they exert in musical life and in the business
> attainments of their representatives.
>
>             1950-131600 1953-134600 1955-152000 1957-167400
>             1951-132700 1954-141000 1956-167003 1960-170100
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
>
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