. Harper's young people . t. fW x • rW CROWNING TI1E MAY-QUEEN. I FIVE FINGERS. BY MRS. LUCY C. LILLIE. WAS once staying in a foreign hotel, where for an hour ] by the clock on my mantel this Da-da, da-da, with onlythe variations usually introduced, went on for fully thatlength of time. Unhappy child! I used to say to myself; can she or daily I used to be tormented by hearing some one over- I he never get beyond that drudgery ; But it was evidenthead play five-finger exercises. Now fifteen minutes of the five-finger student was not alone, for, later, wouldfive-finger exercises may seem to the
. Harper's young people . t. fW x • rW CROWNING TI1E MAY-QUEEN. I FIVE FINGERS. BY MRS. LUCY C. LILLIE. WAS once staying in a foreign hotel, where for an hour ] by the clock on my mantel this Da-da, da-da, with onlythe variations usually introduced, went on for fully thatlength of time. Unhappy child! I used to say to myself; can she or daily I used to be tormented by hearing some one over- I he never get beyond that drudgery ; But it was evidenthead play five-finger exercises. Now fifteen minutes of the five-finger student was not alone, for, later, wouldfive-finger exercises may seem to the listener an hour, but ! come the most astonishing practicing, which showed a 410 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. master hand. It perplexed me until I found that butone musician was at work. The student of the five-fingerexercises proved to be no other tban one of the most fa-mous pianists in the world. I mention this fact simply to show my young: readersthat the greatest musicians do not disdain to employ thissimple me
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