| Show mohit ollor AT states ai centennial t WORLDS H exhibition 1876 0 MASON HAMLIN CABINET ORGANS unanimously assigned the nank RANK IN a several requisites or of sueh guch instruments the MASON liason HAMLIN ORGAN CO have the honor to announce that theOr gans pans of their manufacture have been unanimously asly assigned the FIRST RANK HANK in the SEVERAL requisites of instruments Instrument a of the plass by the judges at the centennial exhibition at philadelphia 1876 and are the ONLY IN OF THIS GENERAL CLASS AWARDED THIS RANK this Is aft after erthe the severest competition by the best makers before one of the most competent juries ever assembled they have also received the MEDAL but as Is well known medals of equal merit have been awarded all articles deemed worthy of recognition so that it will ba be easy for many makers to advertise that they have received first medals the difference in competing articles and their comparative para tite tive excellence are recognized in the reports of the Y judges from which the following is an extract tue THE fe HAMLIN oka N COS CON exhibit of reed need organs and harmoniums show instruments of the first rank nank in the severa severn requisites quy qui sites of instruments of the eram class iness messana and equal distribution of tone scope of expression pres sion slon resonance and singing ringing quality freo free dom and quickness in action of heyn heys and bel lows with thoroughness of workmanship combined with simplicity of action SIGNED BY B alz ALL THE JUDGES the mason hamlin organs are thus described to rank first not in one or two respects only but in the reveral SEVERAL REWIS requisites utes of such instruments and they are the only ones assigned this rank this triumph was not unexpected for the mason hamlin cabinet organs have uniformly been awarded the highest honors bonora in competitions in america there having been scarcely six gix ix exceptions in hundreds of competitions they were awarded highest honors and FIRST MEDALS paris 1867 viona 1873 bartim 1875 philadelphia 1876 and nd have been thus awarded highest honors at |
