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Show Greatest of Artists. This is the titLe which the musician depicted in- the accompanying sketch has selected for himself. No other artist ar-tist is capable of playing so many different dif-ferent instruments at the same time. For some years past he has been attracting at-tracting attention on the continent by his wonderful feats, and has offered of-fered to pay any person 500 who can succeed in imitating him. So far no one has accepted his challenge. M. Malboe'ch is capable of playing as-many as-many as thirteen instruments the piano, cornet a piston, clarinet, violin, a chime of forty bells, the bass drum, symbals, triangles, two kettle drums, tabor and castanets. By means of his hands he plays either the piano or the clarinet and piano at the same time, but more generally the cornet a piston and piano: " The left hand, used for the latter instrument, actuates the chimes also. Ths secondary instruments instru-ments are played through the pressure' of the feet upon the pedals. These multiple occupations do not prevent him while playing the cornet from ll smoking his pipe. He correctly executes exe-cutes pieces that are often difficult. |