| Show WHY NOT LET HIM GO MAD allf philadelphia newspaper asks pertinent question concerning a certain long distance musician ciani at certain seasons iu luen n will talk rind and even write of anything so so that serious comil comment lent on a iong long distance distance plano piano playing contest is quitt quite lu in the cards card leonard Li Ll ehling ebling spreads some wisdom r broad anvelt such a contest in n ills his regular editorial column in musical courier that Is to say tile hie contest will riot not be in musical courter courier but tit in Cro croydon yron england land 1 one hundred hours of continuous playing no item to be repeated Is the idealistic goal si sot i jn in view and a tt torl ds also there will be a prize naturally why f this his competition did riot not fiad find e r place in the current belgian 0 olympiad come in ln for or explanation per ii imps a 1 a ion long distance L ance plano piano playing Is looked upon its as an indoor sport though it might be much z more oe fetching ELI al fresco one of the contestants has been writing rl ting letters to his american friends this said aid contes contestant trint a londoner Is kemp obviously not harry kemp the Greenw greenwich icil village poet naif who has bris already hung up tip ft mark of 67 hours of continuous playing however mr kemp Is still rather something short of the existing record which uns runs up to 82 hours the fascinating sections of the let lers deal with harry kemps system of training ile he practices normally every day from ten to fifteen hours of nurse course on exceptional drys days lie he may practice more we should love to live in tile n apartment above him 1 during the alie practice his arms have to be tightly bound in bandages to keep the blood away from his fingers the fingers it seems are the important 17 factors ir in long Icing distance piano playing As lie practices kempp wife from time to time lime sprays prays the keys of the hie poor pool belabored In instrument krumen t with with alcohol alco liol riot not for the instruments sake but for the sake of those important lingers fingers alcohol Alco liol helps to harden barden them I 1 life lie theory Is and so protect them froin alie tragedy of splitting manifestly too if a player may not repeat K peat alny n ny composition th in the thoi trial his head bend must remain clear his memory alert so 0 mrs bemp L keeps eelis bathing 9 her s segried brow rind and putting up series of little objects to distract ills his attention this latter precaution it Is hoped will keep the roan man from going mad 1 but on oil the the care seems excessive wity why riot not let him go gg madl philadelphia record |
