THE NOSE IN MUSIC

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 15

THE NOSE IN MUSIC

Why are we able to use out right hands so freely and yet are so clumsy .with our left? To remedy this, people arc demanding that right and lefthandedness should be taught in schools along with reading, writing and arith-metic.-dJr.'W.’H. Cummings; the Principal of the Guildhall School of Music, in Ixmdon, says that, the knack of using both hands is essential to the proper playing of some instruments. In fact, 'an organist needs to employ many muscles. Besides both hands, he has to yrdrk stops and pedals with his feet, knees, and even with his back; while the pianist sometimes uses his nose "to get in a middle note.” Carl Maria von Weber (1786 —18261. the composer, wrote .a,|iiaao piece >which a friend pronounced unplayable, as one chord had a note in (he centre which could not be reached by either hand. “Ach, see me do it,” answered the author of ■•'Oberon” and “Der Freischutz,’’"iind lie struclCthe note with his nose.