The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-18
GREAT MUSICAL
TEACHER COMING
The Originator of the CIavier
Method viii Visit
Hawaii.

Honolulu will be most fortunate in
having as her guest next week great
educator in music, A. *. Virgil of New
York Mr. Virgil is the inventor and
originator of the Virgil Clavier Method
for the pianoforte, method the special
aim of which is the making of players
and teaehers-players who know must
cal effects, their cause and technically
how to produce them; teachers who I'M
derstand principles, who know what to
teach ana how TO teach-In short edu-
Gators. 1t is comprehensive system,
presenting in simple, concise and logl-
cal form and sequence all the princl-
pies of musical expression and artistic
playing, bringing them within the
reach of the average pupil, whereas
they were formerly the exclusive and
mysterious prerOgatives of the great
artist.
Mr.. Virgil holds that true psychic
logical educational principles are vital
ly important in foundatiOnal piano in
struction, and aims to show how much
such principles are effectively en-
ployed in the most simple as well as
the most advanced work His method
is the outgrowth of years of patient
and careful study and observation of
the various and varied artistic effects
produced by the world s great artists,
with view to Analysing, classifying
and representing the underlying prin-
ciples in such form as would make
them teachable to the many. He does
not claim that his method makes great
ale of oil hot
nature has not furnished, but he does
claim that if persistentiy followeds and
properly taught it viii develop the
technical ability of the average pupil
to its maximum of efficiency. The
learner is taught to appreciate technic,
upon the basis that the musical end or
ideal he seeks cannot be reached so
long as his fingers lack the necessary
skill to execute. 1t matters not what
the souls conceptions ~or the heart s
desires may be, so long as the fingers
are lacking in the power to execute,
so long is the pupil powerless as a
player. In the clavier method, if prop
erly used, the learner knows at every
step exactly what he is trying to DO,
and whether or no, he does, or how
near he comes to doing, that for which
he aims.
ENDORSED. BY DE PACHMANN.
One of the greatest endorsements
of his method comes in the following
letter:
MY Dear Mr. Virgil feel it both
a pleasure and duty to say to you
and to the world that, after a careful
study of the principles of your Won
derful invention, the practice clavier,
and a thorough use of the instrument
in my own practice, l find it, not mere
ly an oldtime dumb keyboard (good
simply for the silence it brings), but |
it is without doubt the most powerful |
awakener of the vital forces of the |
pianist that has ever been discovered. |
The use of your instrument proves that |
it is not the much hearing of musical |
sounds, but the exact making of playing |
(Which also means a right |
state of muscles and nerves), which |
makes effective piano playing. The
method of study and practice which |
your unparalleled and original technic |
course and the clavier make possible is |
deserving of the highest praise. The |
exaeting demands which the relentless
clicks of the clavier make upon the |
fingers reach the nerve centers, and thus
control movements as playing move
ments were never before controlled. | |
was quite fearful that those unmusical /
clicks, so unlike the beautiful tones of /
my dear Chickering piano, would make
my touch unmusical also, but results
prove the contrary. I am thorough |
believer and advocate of the clavier
and its theories. and earnestly recon-
mend the clavier to all pianists and
students without exception. Sincerely
yours,
VLADIMIR DE PACHMANN.'
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil will arrive from
Australia, where they have been look
ing after the interests of one of their
many schools. Mr.. Virgil win give
ecture-recital at the Castle Kinder
garten Friday evening. May %, at s
D clock. Mrs. Virgil will demonstrate
AS she is an accomplished pianist, and
he program will include several instru-
mental numbers. those who attend will |
be entertained as well as instructed
Tickets may be obtained at the Berg
strom Music Co., and Wall. Nichols Co