THE STEINWAY PIANO 



Is Universally Acknowledged to be 



The Standard Piano of the World 



NOT only is its tone matchless in quality as well as quantity, but ITS DURABILITY STANDS UNRIVALLED. A 

 comparison with other pianos will easily establish the former, while the mighty host of satisfied owners with whom the pur- 

 chase of a Steinway has proved an investment for life should substantiate the latter. It is the marvellous lasting qualities of 

 the Steinway which make it, though its initial cost exceeds that of all other pianos, THE CHEAPEST IN THE END. The 

 liberal patronage of the great steamship lines is another striking recognition of this fact. They soon learned that there is but 

 one piano which could and would withstand the extremes of temperature, frequent and rapid climatic changes and excessive damp- 

 ness, the very arch-enemies of pianos, and hence you find the Steinway in the salons of such ocean greyhounds and floating palaces 

 as the " Deutschland," " Amerika, ' " Kaiserin Auguste Victoria," "Baltic," ' Cedric," ' Oceanic," "Kaiser Wilhelm der 

 Grosse," "Lucania," "Campania," "Minnesota," "Dakota," "Northland," "Northwest," " Empress of Britain," "Empress 

 of Ireland," etc., etc. 



PHOTOGRAPH OF STEINWAY GRAND PIANO IN 



XVI. ON BOARD OF 'I HE MEL'W 

 THE HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE 



AMSTERDAM," THE NtWE: 



LARGEST AND FINEST SHIP OF 



Space forbids the enumeration of all the lines that have equipped their steamers with the Steinway ; suffice it to mention only some of the more prominent 

 of them, namely: The WHITE STAR LINE, The HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE, The CUNARD LINE, The NORTH GERMAN 

 LLOYD, The HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE, The ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE, The ALLAN LINE (Liverpool to Montreal), The 

 NEW YORK & CUBA MAIL S. S. LINE (Ward Line), The RED D LINE (New York to South America), THE NEW YORK & PORTO 

 RICO S. S. LINE, The UNION CASTLE LINE (England to South Africa), The PACIFIC LINE (China, Japan, Australia, etc.) The 

 NORTHERN S. S. COMPANY (Buffalo to Duluth), 1 he CITY LINE (England to Egypt and British Indies), The PENINSULAR & 

 ORIENTAL LINE (East Indies, Japan and China), The GREAT NORTHERN S. S. LINE (Seattle to the Philippines, Japan and China), 

 and The CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY'S ROYAL MAIL S. S. LINES. 



All of these companies could have furnished their vessels with pianos of other well-known makes at less than half the cost of Steinway pianos 

 because of the advertisement to be derived therefrom, yet experience had taught them that after all a dearly bought Steinway was and is the best 

 and cheapest piano in the end. In view of these forceful facts there is possible but one conclusion, and that is that every intending piano buyer 

 who seeks the most profitable investment must of necessity purchase a STEINWAY. 



Prices from $500 up. ' Write for our new catalogue. 



STEINWAY & SONS 



subway Express Station at the Door STEINWAY HALL, 14th Street, Near Union Square, NEW YORK 



