Show hard work of piano playing in a lecture at a recent conference of musicians in dublin some interest ing particulars and astonishing stalls statis ties tics were given relative to the amount of work accomplished by the brain and nerves in p ano playing A plan 1st in view of the present state of pi pt ano forte playing has to cultivate the eye to see about 1 1500 signs in one minute the fingers to make about 2 movements and the brain to receive ceide and understand separately the 1500 1 s gns agns while it issues 2 orders in playing weber webers s moto perpetuo a pianist has to read 4 notes in a little under four minutes this 1 is about 19 in a second but the eye can receive only about ten consecutive im im I 1 sessions ires res in a second so it is evident that in very rapid mus c a player does not see eveia evel y note singly but in groups probably a bar or more at one vision in chopin s etude in E minor in the second bet the speed of reading is still greater since it Is necessary to read 3 signs in two minutes and a half which Is equivalent to about 26 notes a second |