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Updated: June 12, 2025
It seemed to come in funny runs and curious thumps. He called out sharply, and his mother came at once to his side. "I heard piano-playing," said Freddie, and Mrs. Bobbsey started, for she remembered how Flossie had once told her the same thing. "Oh, Freddie, are you sure?" she asked. "Sure," repeated the little fellow. "But it wasn't very good playing." Mrs.
Judging from the manner in which some ambitious young players work, their sole aim is to become human piano-playing machines quite without any real musical consciousness. Before radically condemning this tendency, however, it should be remembered that it has brought us many undeniable advantages.
Ed Sheehan and his daughter were great friends. After they had straightened out the muddle of books in Ed Sheehan's gritty, dusty little office Terry turned her piano-playing talent to practical account.
The perambulator was her excuse for stopping. 'What a pretty boy! she exclaimed in ecstasy, trying to squeeze her picture hat under the hood of the perambulator. 'Do you really think so? said the mother, enchanted. 'Of course! The darling! How I envy you! May wanted to reciprocate this politeness. 'I can't tell you, she said, 'how I envy you your piano-playing. There's one piece 'Envy me!
"The excellence of one's technic depends upon the accuracy of one's understanding of these subjects and his skill in applying them to his interpretations at the keyboard. Mechanical skill, minus real technical grasp, places the player upon a lower footing than the piano-playing machines which really do play all the notes, with all the speed and all the power the operator demands.
The lungs, the larynx, the palate, the nose, the tongue, the teeth, and the lips, are all so utilized, but they are no more to be thought of as primary organs of speech than are the fingers to be considered as essentially organs of piano-playing or the knees as organs of prayer. Speech is not a simple activity that is carried on by one or more organs biologically adapted to the purpose.
The piano was old, but tuned to the middle of the note, and the keys were swept by a master hand. The wires were not hammered; they were touched knowingly as by the player's own fingers, and so they sang and from out among the chords there stole an errant melody. This was not "piano-playing" and not a pianist's triumphant nimbleness it was music.
While often enough from the drawing room which opened upon the other end of the garden had issued the strains of masterly piano-playing, and it was no uncommon thing for little groups to gather in the neighbouring road to listen, gratis, to the voice of some great vocalist. From the first moment of their meeting an intense antagonism sprang up between Tcheriapin and Andrews.
The elementary justification of the school is its organization for class-teaching and work in unison, and there is probably no subject of instruction that requires individual tuition quite so imperatively as piano-playing; there is no subject so disadvantageously introduced where children are gathered together.
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