Page 5 Advertisements Column 4

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1930, Page 5

THE PIANOFORTE Paderewski once said ot the pianoforte: “Assuredly it is the greatest of musical instruments. Its powers—who lias yet been able to test them to the full 1 No sooner does one fancy that nothing can he done to enhance its possibilities than inventive ability steps forward and gives to it a greater volume, a more velvety smobthness of tone. It is at once the easiest and the hardest of all instruments to play; And when you have surmounted your difficulties, not one in a hundred in your audience realises through what labour you have passed!” and he offered a useful piece of advice to students as to methods of work. When this technique is well in hand, they should, he said ‘ ‘make themselves familiar with the works of the masters, not by having them drummed into them by their teachers, but by playing each doubtful passage over and over again, and striving most earnestly to come into harmony with the composer’s ideas.”

We invit-e you to inspect our new shipment of congoleum squares, tne very latest in designs and colourings at McKay’s,—Advt.