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Show Americans Detest Quiet. Of all things which Americans da-test da-test quiet comes first. Take as a prool this matter, of pianos and talking machines, ma-chines, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Every workday there now comes from American factories an even 1,000 pianos and about 1,800 talking machines. ma-chines. You will notice that the piano has not been entirely silenced by mechanical me-chanical music. Indeed, the value ot pianos made daily in our country la 3 times, as great as the value of phonographs, but the number of pianos now turned out is smaller than it was five years ago, while the number of its great rival has increased by half. Uncle Sam tells us that two years ago we paid ?15,000,000 for talking machines ma-chines and ?11,000,000 for the records which they played. No wonder talking machine stock is quoted at about $1,100 a share and stockholders bank upon dividends of $120 a share this year. |