PIANO PLAYING

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1929, Page 10

PIANO PLAYING

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your paper, published on Friday, the 13th inst., you quote some remarks made by Mr. ]?. M. Renner on school music. H 2 Bays « quite deliberately thai, Irani most points o£ views, the piano ik the last instrument that I consider a boy should lean:," also "the piano is a selfish instrument Tor boys."

I have been requested by the council RPlfi s l Ti ° . lea««ng how to play it is se fish, lhis statement of his is a h\n must r; ,d much tinfc and that .il tunes when l,e would probably to tho assertion that he will give it tn Popei^Tvlry^L'lSee^^ bran, action quickened 8 remarkably for each 7Z"! iaCUUie\ r mUSt b0 «PP^ tS of tho ,-,; sc. lises- Moreover, the study orcan 1 el;. lnstri»»cnt, save possibly the We. gc of the piano can, and frequeu% mmil ]L illlf UnPOrtaUt c pa\'t in the «m----o swi nl 8lo l ups.of ,otll« young felit is also absurd to assert that by studying any orchestral instrument better progress would be made, for the stringed and wood-wind instruments are all Se or short of players, why blame the boya who learn the piano and accuse them of Mlfc 1° the skylark, which provides us with its bone.ot cc eshal sweetness, because it does not noin tho company o£ the bell-birds of leaclicii, stop all tuition of such subjects as iMt ii oi liench because boys usually stop ISSZooir sects aa soon as they

Tho piano has been the means of inspiring, a great majority of our most famous composers. Tho few who have not been pianists hay,e regretted their lack of knowledge of this, one of the greatest of instruments. —I am, etc.,

LAURENCE F. WATKINS, President of the Wellington. Branch, of the N. 2. Society of Musicians.