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��three strings to a note, overstrung bass with repeating action, handsome panels, round corners, plain trusses, ivory keys, and improved music rack. Style Gr is also three strings to a note, overstrung bass and repeating action, with handsome panels and carved trusses, ivory keys and improved music rack, and has an exceedingly fine, rich quality of tone and even scale, and is the most desirable size

��rosewood, plain, and serpentine mold- ings on plinth, and Agraffe treble. Messrs. Briggs & Co. furnish a war- ranty with every piano sold, warrant- ing for five years from date of sale.

Mr. C. C. Briggs, the senior mem- ber of the firm, is a native of Boston, brought up and educated in the city. He is a natural musician, and for many years was choir-leader in a metropolitan church. Before starting

���BRIGGS SEPARATE PIANO.

��for the parlor. Style B has in addi- tion a brass action rail, four pilasters and moulding in front, extra hand- some panels, ivory keys, and improved music rack, and is the favorite of artists for its great volume and purity of tone.

Style D, square, has four round corners, richly carved legs and lyre, French action and top dampers, solid

��in business for himself he served a long and faithful apprenticeship with some of the leading manufacturers of musical instruments of that day, and entered upon his work fully prepared and equipped to build up and conduct a great piano manufacturing estab- lishment. In him were combined a fine musical ear, inventive and me- chanical abilitv, the skill to handle

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