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Silent Pianos

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Day
24
Month
April
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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Joseffy, tho pianist, practices hours daily upon a dumb piano, and Von Iiulow carries ono with him in his travels to keep up his practica, and Litzt is said to use one assiduously. The object of sub3titiiting a silent iistrument, which is said to bo growing in favor with musicians, is to subordínate tho ense of hearing in praetise, and to protect the playor iroin the nervous fatigue produced by the uso of that sense at the same time that the sense of sight and touch are employed. A skillea musician aaid reeen tly that the exhaustion from practicing upon a piano was greater thau most persons imagined. He doubted whether a street pavor was as much exhausted by a day's labor as aman who is obliged to pragtios all the afternoon. He favored tho use of a piano that made no noiso. Ho had heard a pbysician say that the norvoas headaches of young women in musical conservatorios were largely duo to the din of practico, and ït was of ton thought that .his noise impaired the musical sense. Tho muto piano makes the performer depond upon his eyo and touch, and enforces more attontion to the score, so that he will be able to got a notion of the music i pon sight readiDg. m Lobster, says Prof. Peekmore, aro now taken al most ontireiy from deep water, and at 'the present rato of decrease will shortly become curiositits. to be fouml only in tho museumta.

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Ann Arbor Democrat