The Danger of Piano Practice.
The incessant piano practising of girls is apt to affect the nerves of enforced listeners on the other side of thin walls and partitions, but a French scientist finds that the effects are even worse on the girls themselves. He declares that a number of nervous maladies from which growing girls suffer are the direct result of too much piano playing. Out of ten girls under twelve years of age who have been under tuition and constantly at practice, six are attacked by such maladies, and of older girls two out of every ten. Among girls not set to piano playing at all only one in ten suffers. The evil effects are attributed to the sound, and, as the suppling of the fingers is the chief thing aimed at in early practice, it is proposed that the fingering should be done on silent keys. This would certainly be as great relief to the listeners as to the players.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 128, 23 September 1896, Page 4
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163The Danger of Piano Practice. Hastings Standard, Issue 128, 23 September 1896, Page 4
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