PIANOS AND NERVES.
It would usually be considered thatti teach children to play tdie piano was a perfp-ctly harmless proceeding —for the children. But if there is any truth in the st/ritemem-bs made by a Berlin doctor, -who has been carefully invest^ ting the matter, it would apprwr that the learnin? of the piano 'has its risks. Out of a thouwind young ffirie Who began to Irorn the piano before *hey were 14. (WO, the doctor has discovered, were affected by some kind of nervous disease, while out of a thoneflnd other girls Who hfld not bfen taught the piano only 100 suffered in a Mke mflnner. The doctor recommends that the study of t>he piflno should not commence until after the age of 16.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 230, 26 September 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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