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Show AMERICAN PIANO HONORED. Pius X's Selection of Weber Company Piano. ' The Weber Piano company will hereafter here-after be entitled to use the Papal coat-o-arms. The permission is incorporated incorpor-ated in k document ust received from Rome which announces that His Holiness Holi-ness has selected the Weber piano for his personal use and in the Holy Apostolic Apos-tolic palaces. This is regarded as a remarkable' tribute to a well known American product and is believed to be the first document of this kind received in this country from Pius X. Aside from the importance of an honor coming com-ing from such a distinguished source, the Papal appointment derives additional addi-tional -interest from the well known fact that the present Pope is a profound pro-found student of music. The recent changes in church music inaugurated by him have caused general comment among musicians outside a well as within the church. That such an eminent emi-nent authority should have selected an American piano for first place in the Vatican is regarded as of the most far-reaching far-reaching importance, not merely to the Weber Piano company, but to "American "Ameri-can art interests generally. It is occasioning oc-casioning comment among musicians at home and abroad that the Weber, which is distinctively a product of American genius, should have been selected se-lected in preference to any of the well known pianos of Germany. England jor France. Since the Weber interests were united with those of the Aeolian company, handsome and artistic quarters quar-ters have been secured for this representative repre-sentative American piano in the principal prin-cipal cities of Europe. The Weber occupies oc-cupies its own home in London. Paris and Berlin, the London building being declared by the English papers to be the most sumptuous warerocms devoted to the musical trade to be found anywhere any-where in Europe. The appointment by the Pope, following so closely upon, that of King Alfonso XIII. of Spain, also to the Weber piano, shows that critical crit-ical Europe is not unwilling to recognize recog-nize the' merits of American products provided they can demonstrate superiority superi-ority to foreign made goods. Brooklyn Standard-Union. |