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Show The Agile Pianist In ploying Chopin's Ktude tn E Minor Mi-nor the pianist has to Interpret S,0."0 muslcat signs In two and one-half minutes. min-utes. That means that his eye has to catch correctly and his brain to comprehend com-prehend clearly more th:in 1.500 signs a minute, Rnd his fingers have to execute exe-cute accurately more than 2.0O0 movements move-ments a minute. Since It' requires at least a tenth of a second to recognize a letter of print, the musician must have marvelously quick mentality and muscles to perceive nnd understand his more complick:ed typographical characters and to translate them Into manual motion at such a rule. Collier's Col-lier's Magazine. |