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\ Gkknd Instki mknt.- Last Mondaymorning the hearts of the six hundredand fifty pupils attending the CentralSchool were made glad by hearing the rich, full tones of an elegant piano. For nearly a year Prof. Ingraham, as Misted by the other te tchers, has been accumulating a fund for the purpose of buying a piano for the school. The subject of what make to get wag thor oughly studied and a decision rendered in favor of the Knahe. A. L. Bancroft A Co.. general agents for the Pacific Coast, were corresponded with through their local agent. Mr. T. M. MoEutee. T hey offered to put any grade the aohool might want into the building at factory prices. Style MI” was ordered and arrived on the last steamer in perfect tnne aud condition. The wonderful power of this instrument can be best judged I ; of from the fact that, under the sk.llful : touch of Miss Minnie Thorndike, who i 1 was called npou to teat the instrument, i i every note could be distinctly heard in \ 1 every part of the vast school budding. ! i he piano w is placed iu the upper hall, and is daily used for Hinging, marching and calistneuics. The catalogue price of the instrument was fUSSO. It has been paid for within $150. This sum the school propose* to liquidate by a grand picnic at the end of the spring term.
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Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer
Seattle, Washington, US
Thu, Mar 13, 1884
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