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J. DEXTER HOBBIE

J. Dexter Hobbie is from Raleigh, North Carolina.
He located in Virginia in 1879 and shortly afterwards
engaged in the piano business in Lynchburg. In 1888,
he opened a branch
house in Roanoke, and
three years later removed
the headquarters
of the Hobbie Company
to this city. It is the
oldest and largest exclusive
piano house in
Virginia. The original
piano house in Lynchburg
has since been
operated as a branch.
The name "Hobbie"
has been identified
with the leading pianos
of the country, the
Hobbie Company having
represented
the Chickering for
twenty-seven years,
handling high-grade goods at all times and catering to
the best class of trade. Mr. Hobbie has had thirty
years' experience with the best piano manufacturers of
America and has sold over ten thousand pianos to as
many satisfied customers. This gives him a knowledge
of piano quality and piano value such as few men
possess, and every piano handled by his company is
selected with that knowledge; therefore, piano purchasers
get the benefit of his long experience. Mr.
Hobbie having been identified with the early history
of Roanoke, and having seen the city grow to its present
magnificent proportions and at the same time being
engaged in the upbuilding of her commercial interests,
he may be regarded in every sense of the word, as one
of the wide-awake progressive citizens of the city,
ready and willing at all times to aid any worthy enterprise
having for its object Roanoke's advancement
and material prosperity.