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Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 10

A MUSICAL EDUCATION! #Os HALF A CROWN. SHOULD BE IN ALL HOMES WHERE I THERE IS A PI>NO OR ORGAN. i THE above heading will, of course, appear to meet; people as the height of absurdity, ', yet the absurdity is more apparent than real. , It goes without saying that * finished magical , education in the regular course cannot be bad for a crown, or even with several hundred additional crowns, but can ib be truthfully naid that the pers on with a sufficient knowledge of music : to play accompaniments readily on the piano or . organ to all tbe popular nnd ntandurd songs i of the day bas no mnsical education ? Assuredly not. A musical ■ education sufficient to enable one to play correctly accompaniments to tbe songs sung in the borne frequently gets and gives more pleasure from the modest accomplishment than does the acquirements of raaDy ! on whose education large, sums have bees ' expended. To the more modest, musical education the { above heading appliet. Such an. education the Otago Witness in now enabled to offer ite music-loving readerß for half » crown, tbe publishers having recently decided to reduce the , price to that sum. This ready-made musical education coum*'* of Fratt't Chart of Chords for the Fiaao and Organ, -which is tbe Dearest approach to a ready-made knowledge of music jet attained by science. It is & short cut to harmony, and is to mnsi« what tbe multiplication table is to arithmetic — a quick method oi learning to play tbe Piano or Organ without a teacber. With this chart anyone can with but a small amount of practice become an expert accompanist. It is complete self-instructor, enabling anyone to play without difficulty accompaniments to any song ever written. It is valuable ' to tbe advanced musician as well as the begiDner, embracing nearly every major and minor chord used in music, and is endorsed by teachers and musicians everywhere. This chart is tbe practical result of years of study by Charles E. Pratt, the noted American composer and mnsician, whose compositions have world-wide popularity and a larger sale than those of any other American or European composer. • - : Believing that the educational and pleasaregiving value of this Chart is very- great, the Otago Witness bas arranged with the pnblishers to supply Prati's Chart of Chords to its readers at Half a CnowN each, and in addition to the Chart of Chords the publishers have kindly agreed to EeDd without extra cbarga a copy of tbe Bock of Songs, containing 184 songs, with words and music. Many of them eoDgs are old-time favourites long out of print that can be obtained in no other way. Every home that bas a piano or organ, especially where tbere are children, should have Pratt's Chart of Chords. Address, with postal notes to value of 2s 6d, with l^d for postage, Publishers Otaoo Witness, Dunedio. THE TRUSTEES, EXECUTORS, A AGENCY COMPANY OP NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED). SPECIALLY Empowered by Act of Parliament to act as Executor, Trustees, Receiver, Liquidator, Guardian, Committee under the Lunatics Act, and Attorney under power, in tho same way as an individual, but unlike au individual tho Company never dies nor leaves tho country, nor becomes incapacitated, and 'ta financial position is easily ascertained. This Company is specially qualified therefore to tct lor absentees. ca.ipitjollm, je50,000. (10,000 Shares of £5 Each.) TOTAL LIABILITY, £100,000. Directors : E. B. Cargill, Esq., J. M. Ritcnie, Esq., Jamea Mills, Esq., P. C. NeiU, Esq., John Roberts, Esq., J. R. Sinclair, Esq. W. Lawrence Simpson, Manager. Office : xchange Buildings, Liverpool street, Dunedin. Agent in London : H. J. Gibbs, Esq., 34 Leadenhall street, E.C. Tho Company collect rents, dividends, interest, or other income, invest money, negotiate loans, purchase and f>cll real and personal -roperty, manage estates, and generally act ».8 agents. Forms, charges, "and. all other information can be obtained on application ab the oluce oi the Company or any of its agencies. At Mr W. H. Beelham's vineyard at Lansdowne somo 25 persons, big and little were engaged "itt year in picking the grapes. Tin; ci:op ia a. goid one. The Lansdowno vineyard now vlekh about 12,000 bottle* of good wine each year : wine which experts pronounce t3 equ?. 1 , if not excel, the best Australian Yiiuagcs.