How to Practise on the Piano - Reflections and Suggestions #264643

IT is not, by any means, the aim of this work to set up a. New Method of Piano-playing in general, or to supersede or Oppose any method already established; but, on the con trary, to form a Supplement to all methods, and to call the attention of unprejudiced experts to a manner of practising, not of executing, which has hitherto not been attempted, and from which the author has obtained the best results. At the outset it certamly presents some difficulties but it provides, within a short time, the surest means for the pupil's guarding against a wrong position of hand and wrist, and for uner ringly regulating the various positions for the Legato and Staccato, for octaves and double trills in one hand, and also of forming a correct fingering, which is attainable, in fact, only through a correct position of the hands; precisely in this matter of teaching his pupils to finger passages for themselves, the author has obtained results which were often surprising.