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THE PHOSOG-RA J/. A FAMOUS AND ARTISTIC WHISTLER. States. So popular is his work that there are few users of the phonograph who have not heard or do not possess an At Lee record, a pronii- ■ | and unmistakable I ^ ^ ^BIBB^^^BE j lessor the '^W^' ** ' ' !.• «•'• - • • ">\- _ WBaF nient is preceded by several mocking-bird notes so true to nature as to be positively startling. The accompanying portrait represents Mr. John Y. AtLee, of Washington, i). C., whose artistic whistling'is known, through the phono- graph, from Maine nia, Op-i.'"n. ..ni of Was liin-luii. Mr. At Lee wu- tiie / ggR l i 'rV I whistler to nize the 'aim- of |t3®. £ the ]*!i« -ii t" ^B \\|it»r main <>!•! •• r-'^sC: DO YOU REALIZE THIS Although the^ihonograph has been in its strumems in existence. And not only in- present perfect mechanical state lor more strumental, but vocal music, too, is thus than a year, few yet realize what it is or brought to the fortunate possessor of how marvelous its performances. The phonographs. The phetoograpb, in its piano, a bulky, costly instrument, requir- ability to entertain, is as varied as sound ing years of practice for even imperfect itself. mastery, is now found iu tens of thousands When the public fully appreciates just of homes. The phonograph, which is what the phonograph accomplishes, the in- small, relatively cheap, and can be oper- accurate.-discordant, laboriously executed nted by a child after a single lesson, will give home-made music of the past will be &uc- not only the finest piano music, but the best ceeded, at less expenditure of money and music of the most accomplished musicians effort, by the finest melodies of the greatest on everv instrument or *combinc,tion of in- masters.