Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-14 | Page 4 | Children Can Now Practice on 'Silent Piano

Children Can Now Nov Practice On Silent Piano When Junior starts in on his piano piano pi pi- ano practice ce Senior gives a grunt I grabs his hat and nd leaves for the club or a call on some ome neighbor Daddy is very much interested in his sons son's musical education until it com comes s to the he point of sitting in the same room or even the same house and listening to o the monotonous thumping of ot the keyboard by the lad It is no longer necessary for the elders to be compelled compelled compelled com com- to undergo this agony and it is no longer necessary fo for the practice period to be postponed because mother moth moth- er has a headache or because company com corn pany has has' dropped in for an evening at cards or converse That is is if iI you are affluent enough to acquire one of the new pianos which is capable of wonderful things in the way of music making It combines the mechanical mechanical me rae- features of the radio with the usual plano piano with the result that it is possible of a wide range of ot perform perform- ance anc This instrument may be played like an ordin ordinary piano and then b by turning turn turn- ing ng on a few miniature microphones and other gadgets ts it may be made to toIve gIve Ive the effect of a full fuJI orchestra But Jut parents parents- with children who are learning earning th the piano will be most Interested Interested Inter Inter- ested in th the feature that enables Junion Junior Junor Jun- Jun ion or to practice without causing the least east disturbance to the others in the household The musical student puts a pair of ol earphones on his head and gives a twist to another gadget and the instrument is silent to everyone except except ex ex- himself and he hears only enough of his music to s satisfy lisy his own de de- sires Ires The only objection that might be raised to this new instrument is that Junior might say that he was practicing icing when as a 3 matter of fact he had lad his his' face buried burled in a book Or he might be asleep at the keyboard