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Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 10

ion HALF A CROWN. SHOULD BE IN ALL HOMES WHERE THERE IS A PLSNO OR ORGAN. FjslHE above Leading will, of courte, appear to I JL mosfc people as the height of absurdity, j jet the absurdity is more apparent than real. Ifc goes without saying that a fiDiehed musical education in the regular course cannot be had fora crown, or fveu with several hundred additional crowngj bu(, can it be truthfully oaid that the pars on with a. pufficient; knowledge of music lo play accompaniments readily ou the piano or organ to sll bbc popular &Dd standard songs of the day has no musical education ? Assuredly not. A musical education sufficient to enable one to piay correctly accompaniments to the sod£s sung m the home frequently gets and gives mote pleasure from ths modest accomplishment than dees the acquirements of many on whose education large sums have been expended. To the more modest musical education the above heading applies. Suck an education the Otago Witness is now enabled to offer its music-loving readers for half a crown, the pub- ■ ishers having recently decided to reduce the price to tbat sum. THa ready-made musical education consists of Pratt's Charb 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 harmouy, and is to music what the multiplication table is to arithmetic — a quick method of learning to play the Piano cr Organ without a teacher. With this chart anyone c.vn with but a small amount of practice become an expert accompanist. It is complete self-instructor, enabling anyone to play without difficultly accompaniments to aDy song ever written. Ie is valuable to the advanced musician as well as the beginner, embracing nearly every major and minor chord uicd in mus>ic, Fiid is endorsed by teachers arc! musicians everywhere. This cbart is tbe practical result of years of study by Charles B. Pr&tt, the noted American composer and musician, whese compositions have world-wide popularity and a. larger eale tban those of any other American or European composer. Believing that thp educational and nlcacurejnving value of this Charb is vi-iy great, the O'JAfiO '\VirNT s -s Las arranged with the publishers to supply Prafcu's Chart of Chords to its readers at Half a Cbown each, and in addition to the Chart of Chords the j'ubli&hers have kindly agreed to send without extra charge a copy of the Book of Songs, containing 184songs, with words and music. Many of these songs are old-timo favourites long out of print that can ba obtained in no other way. Every home that has a piano or organ, especially where there are children, should have Pratt's Chart of Chords. Address, with postal notes to value of 2s 6d, with l£d tor postage, Publishers Otago Witness, Uunedin. j