Today's Out of the Box features a fight over a piano in the Frederick Co. courts in 1884. The Schomacker Piano-Forte Manufacturing Co. wanted payment for its product, but the purchaser claimed the piano's quality wasn't up to snuff.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/10/24/and-the-piano-it-sounds-like-a-carnival/


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