Life, 1922-09-14 · page 5 of 40
Life — September 14, 1922 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily an advertisement** for the Lyon & Healy Apartment Grand Piano, not a political cartoon or satire. The image shows a domestic interior scene with figures near a piano, illustrating how such an instrument would fit into a home. The accompanying text emphasizes that grand pianos, traditionally large and expensive status symbols, can now fit modest apartment living spaces. The advertisement highlights a practical innovation: the "Junior Unfolding Two-Level Pedal," which allows children to reach the pedals properly—a feature marketed as unique to Lyon & Healy pianos. There's a mail-in coupon for a floor pattern showing how the piano fits in a room. This represents early 20th-century consumer marketing targeting middle-class home ownership and musical education for children.
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CLIP and MAIL THIS COUPON FOR FLOOR PATTERN LYON & HEALY, 62-87 Jackson Boutevasp, Cucaco Please send me floor pattern, catalog, | flustrated folder explaining the Junior | Unfolding Two-Level Pedal, and the | | mame of the nearest store where I can | see your Apartment Grand Piano. I \ I | | | I | | ! | | —-—--—- THIS COMPLETE SMALL GRAND PIANO WILL ADD DISTINCTION TO YOUR LIVING ROOM For generations the grand piano has been a mark of distinction—an index of culture and refinement. Its large size and formidable volume of tone, however, demanded a vast room. Its cost was excessive for an instrument for the home. But now all its incom- parable tonal quality, its dignity and beauty, have been brought within the scope Read What Rachmaninoff of the home of modest dimensions. Says about Your Child’s The Lyon & Healy Apartment Grand Piano takes but little more space than an Musical Education upright. Its voice, rich and full, is yet modulated to suit the modern living room. «Much of the beauty of piano playing is lost unless the pedals THE FIRST COMPLETE PIANO are employed. Children should . : . . k the pedals as early as Heretofore, every piano, no matter how fine, has failed partially in that the posible,” ann eee small child could not play it properly. The pedals were beyond his reach. He Bauer, Godowsky, Grainger, could not give expression to the music! Boguslawski, Ganz, Schmier, _ Now, the Junior Unfolding Two-Level Pedal remedies this. It completes the dors the Junior Unfolding Pedal piano by making tone control possible for child as well as for adult. Read at the enthusiastically. ‘It should be right what the world’s foremost pianists say of it. Only the Lyon & Healy Piano used universally,"” they my. has this vital improvement. SEND FOR FLOOR PATTERN With the full keyboard indicated, our paper floor pattern shows, exactly and realistically, how the Apartment Grand will fit into your home. A request will bring it promptly, without obligation. . 72 | yon & Healy Apartment Grand Piano EVERYTHING KNOWN IN MUSIC 62-87 JACKSON BOULEVARD FOUNDED 1864 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS comicbooks.com