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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1906 



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. The liberal patronage of the great steam- 

 ship lines is a very striking recognition of this fact. They soon learned that there is but one piano which could and would with- 

 stand the extremes of temperature, frequent and rapid climatic changes and excessive dampness, 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," "Nieuw 

 Amsterdam," "Minnesota," "Dakota," "Northland," "Northwest," "Empress of Britain," "Empress of Ireland," etc., etc. 



PHOTOGRAPH OF STF1NWAY GRAND ON BOARD OF THE "MERIDA," BEING ONE OF FOUR PIANOS JUST COMPLETED FOR THE WARD LINE 



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 promi- 

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

 LLtn'D The HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE, The ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE, The ALLAN LINE (Liverpool to Montreal), The 

 NEW YORK & CUBA MAIL S. S. 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), The CITY LINE (England to Egypt and British Indies), The PENINSULA & 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 has taught them that after all a dearly bought Steinway 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 



