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Otago Witness, Issue 2295, 24 February 1898, Page 12

A MUSICAL EDUCATION SHOULD BE IN ALL HOMES WHERE i THERE IS A PIANO OR ORGAN. I nfPIHE above heading will, of course, appear to j ja_ m->Bfc people as the height of absurdity, >et the absurdity is aiore apparent than real. | It goes without saying that a fir:'fhod musical i education in the regular course cannot be ha.fl for a crown, or even with several hundred adrti- j : tional crowns, bus a-u ifc be truthfully said that | the person with a sufficient knowledge of music ! to play aecompauiineuts readily on the pis.no or \ organ to :tll the popular and standard Bon<<s ! of the day ha' mj musical enuc^uon ? Assuredly j nol. A mubical education tiiffieient to enable one to piay correctly aceompaaiments to zh". > songs bung in the homa frequently gets and I gives more pleasure from the modest ?*ccom- j plishment thar>. does the acquirements of many i on whose education large sums have been j expended. ( To the more modest musical education the above heading applies. Such an education the Otago Witness is now enabled to offer its music-loving readers for a crown, believing that ifc is the greatest benefit it can give to its subscribers. This ready-made musical education consists of Fratt's Chart of Chords for the Piano and Organ, which is the nearest approach to a ready-made knowledge of music yet attained by science. It is a short cut to harmony, and is to music what the multiplication table is to arithmetic — a quick method ef learning to play the Piano or Organ without a teacher. With this chart anyone can with but a small amount of practice become an expert accompanist. It U complete self-instructor, enabling anyone to play without difficulty accompaniments to any song ever written. It is valuable to the advanced musician aB well as the beginner, embracing nearly every major and minor chord used in music, and ia endorsed by I teachers and musiciabs everywhere. i Thi* chart is the pract'cal result of years of j study by Charles E. Pratt, the noted American ! compose!: and musician, whose compositions hove world-wide popularity and a larger pale than thoce of any other American or European ! composer. j Believing that the educational va'ue of llvs Chart is wry great-, the Oi'Arjo Witness has I arranged with the publishers to supply Pi'iLt'a j Chirfc of Coords to its readers at 5s eich, and ia I addition to the Chart of Chords the publishers I have kindly agreed to send without estridjarKQ | a copy of the Bo< k of Songs, containing 184- ! songs, with words and music. Many of these 30Dgs are old-time favourites long cut of print thus can be ob'aiued in no other way. Every home that has a piano or organ, esppcially where there are children, should have Pratt's Chart of Chords. This offer is mada tor a short time only, and readers i hould avail themselves of ifc withoafc delay. Addrees, with postal notes to value of ss, Publ'shecs Otago Witness, Dunedin. I PviEVf?. Tuu), 1 ; i\l Allies i K£NRY HUGHES, C.E., M.E., "O EGISTERED ] D atent Agent by Govcmmcnt JOi/ Examination, corner of Staiise ;nvl Tli^h i j'trectd, Dunedin ; iind <it Wellington and Auck land. ratcnti and Trade Mark-: obtained in | all Countries i Specifications and Jn.m'ingi AccuiPK'ly ! Propaied; liS'i'AiJi.riUSD 18S2.