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The Weber Pianola Piano when ready to play by perforated music-roll. When used for hand-playing 
the panel in the top of the case is closed and the disappearing pedals are folded up inside the case 
A Piano of the Highest Type 
Plus the Means to Play It 
OR YEARS piano development has been one-sided. It was all in the direction of making 
the piano a better piece of mechanism—of improving its tone, its action, its musical qualities. 
But nothing practical was accomplished in making the piano easier to play upon—nothing until the 
invention of the Pianola six years ago. 
When the success of this marvelous instrument became apparent and it was finally accepted by the 
musical world as a thoroughly artistic aid in playing the piano, the next step was to bring piano and 
Pianola into complete union. Instead of the two in separate cases, could they not be brought into a 
single, compact instrument ? 
Upon this problem were centered the efforts of a force of musical and mechanical experts such as 
had never been brought together before. After several years of continual experiment, success was finally 
achieved in the Pianola Piano, of which the highest point of development to-day has been attained in the 
Weber Pianola Piano 
It is a piano of the highest grade—leaving nothing to be desired from every standpoint from 
which pianos have heretofore been judged. The fact that it is the Weber Piano which has been used— 
an instrument which has never occupied other than one position, that in the front rank—is a guarantee 
of the new piano’s excellence. No iota of the distinctive ‘‘ Weber-Tone”’ has been lost in making the 
combination. 
To this world-famous piano, with over fifty years of prestige, is now added the Pianola—* the standard piano-player of the world.” The two in- 
struments have been so ingeniously built into each other that practically no more floor space is required for the combination than for a regular upright. 
The exterior appearance of the Pianola Piano is the same as that of any high-grade upright. A sliding panel and disappearing pedals completely 
conceal the Pianola feature when hand-playing alone is desired. 
Never before has a piano been produced, the advantages of which were so plain and unmistakable as in 
the Pianola Piano. One does not have to be a piano expert to appreciate that here 1s a most remarkable creation 
which ts bound to revolutionize the entire piano industry. 
On exhibition and for sale at Aeolian Hall. Sold on moderate monthly payments. Pianos of other makes taken in exchange at fair valuation 
The Pianola Piano Art Catalog O sent free upon application 
The AEOLIAN COMPANY, Aeolian Hall, 32°S 2o0% 
