February 28, 1925.
13
PRESTO
instinctive taste for better music. With their first
player they will buy rhapsodies, operatic numbers
and other selections that it takes some Americans
years to appreciate.
"Instead of making people lose their desire to
learn how to play the piano, I think that the mechan-
El Paso, Texas, Music Store Manager Writes ical instrument has the opposite effect. Because it
creates more music lovers, it creates more people
Entertainingly in Daily Herald
who themselves want to play. It is a boon to chil-
of That City.
dren studying music nowadays, for they can play a
The ambitious mission of the playerpiano is set record on the piano and know how the selection
forth in the El Paso, Texas, Herald by Will R. they are studying should go—all about the runs and
Shutes of the El Paso Piano Company. It is an- rests, that present such problems.
"The climate within a radius of 200 miles around
other of Mr. Shutes' clever efforts to direct the at-
tention of the public to the instrument, which he El Paso is different from that anywhere else in the
says, is "doing the same thing in the world of music country. And it is hard on pianos because of its
that the printing press did in the world of letters." excessive dryness. Since 90 per cent of a piano is
wood, a piano containing the least bit of sap or mois-
Continuing, Mr. Shutes says:
"Before the day of the playerpiano there was usu- ture shrinks and becomes imperfect when it is ex-
ally just one person in the family who could make posed to the dry air for a time. I have been inter-
a little music and everybody had to await his pleas- ested in this matter for 25 years and have worked
ure in the matter. But now everyone has access to to have made an instrument that will not deteriorate
good music and as a result there are more good in our climate.
music listeners. I predict that not long hence 90 per
''The life of the average pianos should be from
cent of the pianos made will be players.
35 to 50 years. It takes about four summers to
"People are buying better music all the time in El
test a piano to see whether it will endure in this cli-
Paso. I think this is due to the concert series offered mate."
here each winter and to the music memory contests
in the public schools. Folks are coming to know
good music because they hear more of it. They
may not know just why they like it, but they know
that it has something that the other kind lacks. It
is like reading Shakespeare or the Bible. The first
time you hear it, you may not pay much attention to Conferees Refuse to Agree on Senate Estimations
it, but when you've heard it over and over again
and Further Hearings Promised.
you come to love it more.
The House commerce committee last week re-
"I find that usually when people buy their first
playerpiano they will buy a great many light music fused favorably to report a bill authorizing elimina-
rolls, dance pieces and popular songs. But they soon tion of the Pullman surcharge. The vote was 16 to
tire of these and the next ones they buy are a little 2. The House will have an opportunity to vote on
more classical and finally they come to buy only the question, however, despite the committee's ac-
tion.
the enduring selections.
"People of Mexican descent constitute a large num-
The House committee conducted hearings on the
ber of the music lovers in El Paso. They have an repeal bill after charges that it had been pigeon-holed
had led to the circulation of a petition among House
members proposing to take the measure out of the
committee's hands and bring it up on the House
floor.
A declaration by 18 of the 21 members of the House
committee on interstate commerce adverse to the
bill was made this week. It was said that passage
of the bill making the surcharge on Pullman travel
illegal would initiate direct rate making by congress
and "open the doors for every interest dissatisfied
with any existing rate to ask congress to take on the
commission's statutory duty as to rate making."
Opponents of the bill will use the report in the
fight that will be made against the Robinson amend-
ment to the independent offices appropriation bill
which is the same as the bill that was considered
by the house committee.
The committee . found that the surcharge pro-
duced about $37,000,000 for the railroads in 1923.
It said, assuming that carriers could stand a reduc-
are the last word In
tion of $37,000,000, there was no reason why the
musical perfection.
entire reduction should be made for the benefit of
Pullman travelers.
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