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Page 82
I confess now that in my youth I cheated a little in my playing “ by ear . ” In our home we had a player piano into which we fed rolls of perforated paper that , as we pumped away with our feet , produced as far as a piano could the ...
I confess now that in my youth I cheated a little in my playing “ by ear . ” In our home we had a player piano into which we fed rolls of perforated paper that , as we pumped away with our feet , produced as far as a piano could the ...
Page 83
I happened to know it because I loved the Nutcracker Suite and often played the record on the victrola at home . The most striking of all answers about music on our program came in response to a question that wasn't even on the card .
I happened to know it because I loved the Nutcracker Suite and often played the record on the victrola at home . The most striking of all answers about music on our program came in response to a question that wasn't even on the card .
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He said that violinists usually quit in their seventies and woodwind players earlier . ... Moritz Rosenthal and others played in their eighties and he himself had heard Francis Planté , the great Frenchman , play when he was ninety ...
He said that violinists usually quit in their seventies and woodwind players earlier . ... Moritz Rosenthal and others played in their eighties and he himself had heard Francis Planté , the great Frenchman , play when he was ninety ...
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Contents
MYSELF WHEN YOUNG I | 1 |
THE NEWSPAPER GAME | 17 |
HOBNOBBING WITH CHAMPIONS | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Not Under Oath: Recollections and Reflections |
| Author | John Kieran |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 282 pages |
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