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"Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love;
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the men with secret art."
Then there are those lines of Pope in his "Ode to St.
Cecelia's Day":
"By music, minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too high, nor sink too low:
If in the breast tumultous joys arise,
Music her soft, assuasive voice applies;
Or, when the soul is pressed with cares,
Exalts her in enlivening airs."
There is also that famous passage of Shakespeare from
the "Merchant of Venice" which comes into the life of
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every child during his or her school days:
"The man that hath no music in himself,
CARLETON CHACE, Editor
A or is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Alexander Hart
E. L. Easton
Is fit for treasons, slrategems and spoils;
Technical Editor
Associate Editor
The motions of his spirits are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Betty B. Borin
Circulation Manager
Let no man be trusted."
So, today there is an example being set by the President
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of the greatest country on earth that may well be heeded
by all the mothers of this great land who now can pointedly
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admonish little Johnny when he doesn't want to practice
because he considers piano lessons beneath the dignity of
a he-boy; when the bully at school berates him as a sissy
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JUNE. 1945
for staying and practicing on his piano and not joining
the gang at play or for some useless mischief. Nothing
has happened in recent years which can have a greater
moral effect on the younger generation in respect to learn-
ing how to play the piano, than this fact that President
Truman is a lover of music and plays the piano for relaxa-
RECEDENTS emanating from the White House had tion and pleasure. Children will read about it in their
become a common occurrence during the past decade, history books from generation to generation because it has
so common in fact that John Q. Citizen was becom- created a precedent—the first time it ever happened in
ing immune to them expecting the unusual to happen the United States since the signing of the Declaration of
rather than the usual. We seem to be getting back
Independence on July 4, 1776, and the first inauguration
to a common sense era. When it was reported that Presi- of George Washington on April 30, 1789.
dent Truman had had a piano
moved into his study, so he might
Tuning Schools Offer Exceptional
find relaxation in playing it during
Opportunities
his few idle moments, it was a
HE work which has been done by the Manpower
precedent which stirred editors all
Committee of the National Piano Manufacturers
over the world to action. This was
Association has borne fruit in the establishing of at
news. News because it is the first
least three fine schools for the purpose of teaching veterans
time in the history of the greatest
and others interested in the art of tuning and repairing
country on earth that a President
pianos. There is now one in New York about which you
has stepped into the White House
can read on another page in this issue. There is also one
who finds through playing the pi-
ano a relaxation which helps him in Chicago and one in Los Angeles. Each of these schools
carry on "and solve the innumerable is conducted by men thoroughly conversant with every
problems which face him each day. phase of r the profession. In fact not only will a student
know how to build or rebuild a piano when he graduates
There is little doubt that now that
but
he will also be instructed on how to conduct a busi-
Carleton Chace
the music industry's slogan "Music
ness
of his own. As many dealers throughout the country
Maintains Morale" has found a meaning in the first home
who
have
built up a successful business were tuners when
of the land it will be reflected throughout the homes of
they
started
out in life, these training courses offer an
the 140 million people in the country. As once written by
excellent
opportunity
for a young man to learn the funda-
Addison in the "Song for St. Cecelia's Day":
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