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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW,
August, 1931
Study of Child at the Piano by Anton Bruehl
personalities that rare glamour that
makes the whole world come smiling?
ABOUT OUR
CHILDREN
ABOUT our children we rear our gay-
est dreams, clothe them in our most
poignant hopes, and probe their
futures with a bright fear that is as
old as the world. They will be strong
and brave . . . they must be healthy
. . . to their prosperous door-steps
the pleasant people of the world will
beat a pathway.
The popular people we see about us
are accomplished people . . . accom-
plished in the manners and arts that
generations of culture have tested and
found attractive. It is a share in these
accomplishments that we must give
to our children . . . a share in sport,
in dancing, in art, literature and music.
They need not excel in any of these;
but their performance in all must be
authentic. And this particularly must
be the case with their music. That is
one reason the Steinway is treasured
in important homes where children are
being reared in the cultured tradition.
So run our dreams and our hopes.
. . . But everything we have and all"
The Steinway brings an authentic
that we can do must be brought to
bear on the effort to make these things inspiration to the child's instruction.
come true. In the budding characters It is, in itself, a graceful work of art
we can strive to encourage such few that develops a sense of artistic values
virtues as we, ourselves, had to pass and an appreciation of the utmost in
on . . . the small, lithe bodies we can musical expression. . . . And the
guard and develop . . . but how shall Steinway, choice of the masters from
we imprint upon their dawning little Wagner to Rachmaninoff, leaves the
THE
N S T R U M E N T
O F
T H E
impressionable young talent unhandi-
capped, from the all-important first
moment, by the distortive influences
of practice on less perfect instruments.
Because this finest of all musical
instruments, the Steinway, ranks so
high in the world of excellent things,
it'long has been looked upon as the
exclusive possession of musical artists
or families of wealth. But the fact is,
that every family may acquire the
Instrument of the Immortals on terms
that will not overburden even the
modest income.
A new Steinway Upright piano (T Q ~~J r~
can be bought for a total as Low as
Q / ^_J
(As the Steinway ii made in New York City, this price, naturally,
must be "plus transportation" beyond New York and its suburbs.)
10% down
Used pianos accepted in partial exchange.
If there is no Steinway dealer near you,
write for information to
STEINWAY
I M M O R T A L S
AN EXAMPLE OF STEINWAY NATIONAL ADVERTISING
& SONS, STEINWAY
HALL
109 West 57th Street, New York
STEINWAY