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Show OLD-TIME PIANO PLAYING. Not Much Like the Face That Is Set by the Players of To- Dny. In theso Infant days of the twentieth contury the pianist stands next to tho singer among tho prin- of the musical world, writes W. J. Henderson, Hender-son, In thu Atlantic. Hut It was not always ho Tho singer was the first to mount tho public throne and rolgn with tho siivctor of sweetened sound. Next camo tho violinist, and after him tho virtuosi of wind Instruments. Knrly concert programmes show the names of singers, but not of manipulators manipu-lators of the keyboard. The concert plnnlst of to-dny, sweep, log the keyboard of his grand ni"' tho heart strings of his hearers with sinewy sin-ewy hands, omorged slowly fro.., tho humble stuto of a poor dependent, creeping with nnxlous offerings to tho door of his princely patron. It was not till almost the middle of tho elg'' oenth century that the performance perform-ance of solo feats on thti lmrpWchord begun to attract public attention and to form the subitanen of concerts. |