Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-24
NO REASON TO BE
WITHOUT MUSIC
Child's Musical Education
Means Much to It's
Parents

There are many homes throughout
this country, and in other countries,
too, for that matter, where there is
no music in the home, for the simple
reason that no members of the fam
lily can play the piano. A dust-collect-
ing, silent piano is often, unfortu-
nately, the rather melancholy sight
that greets the visitor in a number
of homes nowadays.
Ofttimes, again, there is no piano
in the home because of the inability
to play on it. This simply means an
entire deprivation of music in that
| home, an utter absence of the noble
atmosphere of the greatest of arts,
! and the consequence loss to the
growing generation in that family
circle of the refining, uplifting and
educational influences of music.
How entirely different is the home
in which there has been installed a
| player piano of reliable make. Here
everyone can play the player. and
how especially beneficial and divert
ing to the tired father, coming home
after the cares and petty annoyances
| of his business day is the relaxation,
recreation and genuine pleasure af-
, forded him by playing any selection
of his preference.
The wife can play, and so can the
older children. They can interpret
their own individual musical selves
exactly as they wish, and there are
no limitations whatever, as regards
the musical selections that may be
rendered artistically, on a thoroughly
reliable and dependable playerpiano
Then the youngest members of the
family, the young girls and boys
growing up and ready to take music
lessons, their ears will be correctly
trained by the many selections on the
player piano they hear given by the
older members of the family. Cor
rectly training the ear is the first
step in musical education, and a most
important one. Through the medium
i of the player piano, this step is easily
facilitated, and at the same time
perfect tempo is provided, and the
adult performer himself is obtaining
first rate enjoyment besides.
Another important point: The
father and mother will exercise par
ticular care in the selection of the
compositions they play in the hear
ing of the younger children. They
will strive to interpret the better. the
more worthwhile musical selections
of every character. This naturally
would promote the most desirable
influence, yet be eXerted almost un-
consciously on the young child.
When the child's ears are educat-
ed in the right direction, based on
the right fundamentals, 1t means
more and more musical education OF
the right kind, and a more and more
Intelligent appreciation of good
music in the entire household. Then
later on, the child can learn to play
the piano with an excellent start In
matters musical and with an appre-
citation of the better class, worth
while music, which will have far
reaching results in the further
musical advance the child makes.
The reliable player piano. with its
piano feature, is, OF course, always
available for the child's piano les
sons.
Joseph Stransly, conductor of the
famous New York Philharmonic So
ciety; DIR. Karl Muck, conductor of
the Boston Symphony, and other
eminent leaders in the music world,
agree that the musical education, of a
child should begin very early, when
a child is most susceptible to impress
sions, when it most readily yields to
the benign influence of good music,
and is, so to speak, flexible in its
mental development. How ideal and
very useful. then, are the artistic
/ functions of a reliable player piano
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