[Catalog / Sheet Music]: Schubert Collection of Music: Expressly Composed and Arranged for the Wonderful Schubert Mandolin-Piano (The Fifteenth Catalogue)

New York: Schubert Piano Co, 1890. Softcover. Very Good. Manufacturer's catalogue with sheet music. Quarto. 12pp. Stapled wrappers. Illustrated in black and white with a full color ad on the rear wrapper. Wrappers splitting along the bottom of the spine, wrappers lightly soiled, and corners bumped, very good. Contains four instrumental pieces for use with the Schubert Mandolin-Piano, "Schubert Two-Step or March," "Schubert Mazurka or York," "Schubert German Melody," and "Schubert Caprice or Schottisch." The Schubert Mandolin-Piano was an upright piano with an internal device controlled via foot pedal that pressed against the strings in such a way as to mimic the sound of a mandolin, or according to the front cover, nearly any other plucked string instrument. The Antique Piano Shop website states of the Mandolin-Piano, "This unique sound quickly caught on and became widely known as the “rinky tink” or “honky tonk” piano sound used in saloons and bars across the land for decades." A neat bit of music ephemera.