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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 203, 2 September 1871, Page 4

MUSICAL AND MECHANICAL. "VJ-R. ALFRED fIAKEY, TEACHER OF THE ORGAN, PIANOFORTE, HARMONIUM, CORNET, AND SINGING. Late Pianist to her Grace the Duchess ot Inverness, and Performer at the Soirees given by the Marchioness of Londonderry, and the most distinguished of the Nobility and Gentry of England. CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER to a Band of forty talented Instrumentalists in Melbourne for Thirty Concerts ; also Leader of a Brass Band of ten performers for several years in the same colony. Formerly ORGANIST at St. Mark's Church, Collingwood, Melbourne. MUSIC COMPOSED & ARRANGED for all Orchestral Instruments, from Violino Primo, to Grosse Caisse. Compositions Corrected for the Press. The use of the EXPRESSION STOP taught in One Lesson, the Mechanism of this and the Percussion Action being illustrated by a dissected Harmonium of ten stops. T V N I N G. Pianofortes, Organs, and Harmoniums Tuned, not by the old Stanhope method, but on the principle of Equal Temperament (as adopted by Erard, Broadwood, and Collard), the intervals being divided according to the number of vibrations, as indicated by the Sirene, and the apparatus of M. Savart. MECHANICAL. Mr. Oakey, Inventor of, and Performer on, the "Orchestrina," begs to state that, in London, he underwent a thorough training with his father (who held one of the highest positions at Messrs. Coli_ard and Collard's) in the art of covering hammers, making the small work, and finishing and regulating Pianofortes. In the course of a long practice in Tuning, &c, he has studied all the makers' various mechanisms, there being upwards of thirty different actions. ■•■ In order to effect repairs on the most reasonable terms, Mr. Oakey, has erected a Workshop, and purchased ail the most recent inventions in Tools, including a Lathe, Drilling, Boring, and Morticing Machines. He can, therefore, confidently say that he now possesses by far the largest set of Musical Tools, and Pianofortemaking Machinery, in New Zealand. In addition, he has in stock varieties of Pelt for hammer covering (this he can effect at English prices); Leathers and Cloths for ■■• Actions, Dampers, Hoppers, Levers, and various parts of Pianoforte mechanism; Smith's Patent PianD Wire; Harmonium Reeds; and all the requisites, for the : repairs of * Organs, , Harmoniums, Concertina?, i Plutinas, Organ Accordions; .also for Euterpeons, and every kind, of self-acting instrument. - - -,; Mr. Oakey respectfully; invites inspeqtion of his Workshop at any time, feeling confident that he can render a good old Pianoforte almost -equal ; to new, and effect Repairs, cheaper, -and, infinitely better, than any peripatetic Tuner. . ■ ■ B-UDQE-stbuet, four dooifa from M'Geb's Hotel. . ' •■• ■ , ,v 16i9 ;