Good News for Some Boys and Girls.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue I, 2 January 1904, Page 57

Good News for Some Boys and Girls.

A Beilin physician has just started a campaign against the widely-spread practice of giving pianoforte lessons to children. He asserts that this instrument is largely responsible for the alarming development of nervous aJ'ections which is steadily increasing. In his opinion a girl ought not to begin the study of music before the age of sixteen years, and even after that age not more than two hours a day ought to be devoted to practice. Out of two thousand girls who were put to the torture of scale exercises before the age of twelve, six hundred are doomed to some form of nervous disease, whereas out of the same number of girls whose musical education was neglected only one hundred turned out neuropathic.