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Otago Witness, Issue 2402, 15 March 1900, Page 10

A Pi if SPAS FPlilTtATinftß FOR HALF A CROWN. SHOULD BE IN ALL HOMES WHERE THERE IS A PIANO OR ORGAN. PB^HE above heading will, of course, appear to _i_ most people as the height of absurdity, set ihe absurdity is more apparent than real. It goes without saying that a finished musical education in the regular course cannot be had fora crown, or even with several hundred additional crowns, but can it be truthfully said that the pere on with a sufficient knowledge of masic to play accompaniments readily on the piano or organ to sll tbe popular and standard aongs of the day has no musical education ? Assuredly i not. A musical education sufficient to enable one to play correctly accompaniments to the songs sung in the borne fiequently gets and gives more pleasure from the modest accomplishment than decs the acquirements of many on whose education large sums have been expended. To the more modest musical education the above heading applies. Such an education the Otago Witness is now enabled to cfEer its music-loving readers for half a crown, tbe pubiißhers bayin g recently decided to reduce the price to tuat turn. This ready-made musical education consists of Prait's Cbarfc of Chorda for the Piano and Organ, which is tbe nearest approach to a ready-made knowledge of music yet attained by science. It is a short cut to harmony, acd is to music what tbe multiplication table is to arithmetic — a quick method of learning to play tbe Piano or Organ without a teacher. With Ibis chart anyone can with but a small amount of practice become an expert accompanist. It is complete self-instiucto.-, enabling anyone to play without difficulty accompanimenta <o any song ever written. It is valuable to the advanced musician as well as the beginner, embracing nearly every major and minor j chord uted in music, and is endorsed by ! teachers acd musicians everywhere. | 1 bis chart is the practical result of years of study by Charles E. Pratt, the noted American compoeer and musician, whese compositions bave world-wide popularity and a larger sale thau those of any other American or European composer. Believing that the educational and pleasuregiviDg value of this Chart is very great, the Otago Witness has arranged with the publishers to suj. ply Pratl'a Chert oE Chords to its readers at Half a Grown each, and in addition to tbe Chart oi CLords the publishers have kindly agreed to send without extra charge a copy of the Book of Songs, containing 184songs, with words and music. Many of these BODga are old-time favourites long out of print that can be obtaioed in no other way. Every home that Las a piano or organ, especially wfcere there are children, should have Pi fcj'a Cbart of Chords. Address, with postal notes to value of 2s 6d, ■ with l^d tor postage, Publisheis Otago Witness, Dunedin.