The tone is deliciously sweet, sustained, and extraordinarily powerful ; the touch re- sponds to the faintest and most trying strains on it, and the workmanship is simply perfect." W. Kuhe. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS Patent Sostenente Pianos. "I feel great pleasure in bearing testi- mony to the excellency of the Pianofortes made by Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons. Their tone is rich, powerful, and equal, and their check repeater action most ingenius, successful, and valuable." Edward J. Hopkins, Organist and Director of the Choir, Temple Church, London, JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' PATENT SOSTENENTE PIANOS. Illustrated London News. " The French papers have been unanimous in their expressions of admiration of these splendid instruments. The grands especially have enchanted the Parisian professors and amateurs of musio by their noble sonorous- ness, their enormous power, and the sym- pathetically voice-like quality of tone. The touch, also, is beautifully light, elastic, and certain, 80 that many pianists of every nation, from the Abbe Lizt downwards who nave tried these instruments, have highly complimented the enterprising manufac- curers on their success." JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' Patent Sostenente Pianos. Morning Advertiser. " The Legion of Honour. — -In addition to the other distinctions awarded to Meßßrs John Brinsmead and Sona at the Paris Exhibi- tion of 1878, the founder of the firm has been created Chevalier of the Legion of Honour." JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' PATENT SOSTENENTE PIANOS. " Paris, the Bfch Sept. 1878. ' ' We, the undersigned, certify that, after having seen and most conscientiously examined the English Pianos at the Universal Exhibition of 1878, find that the palm belongs to the Grand Pianos of the house of Brinsmead." Nicholas Rubinst'en, Antoine de Kontski, Court Pianist to the Emperor of Germany, and Chevalier of several Orders. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' tl Patent Sostenente Pianos. Daily Chronicle. "In tone the instrument is exceedingly rich and sweet, and in touch the very per- fection of lightness. Messrs Brinsmead may certainly be congratulated oa their success." , JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' Patent Sostenente Pianos. Echo. " The nearest approach to perfection with which we are acquainted." JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' Patent Sostenente Pianos. Daily News. 