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Show Celerity of the Pianist, A pianist has to cultivate the eyes bo as to soo flttoen hundred signs in cno mlnuto, the fingers to make 3,000 movements, and the brain to understand under-stand all those signs, as wll as direct di-rect nil those movements. In playing Weber's "Motto Pcrpetuo" a pianist has to read 4,461 notes In lees than four minutes, or nineteen a second, but the cyo can receive only about ten consecutive Impressions a second. So that In quick music It seems that a player does not see every noto singly, but in groups, probably a bar or more at ono view. |