PIANOS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 5, 24 July 1878, Page 2

PIANOS.

If we wen about to write * book upon modern instruments* of torture* we should head the fir it obapter ' Pianos, and CIIO barbarous and Indiscriminate Urn of them." In the hands of our dear siitora they h*w beoone moral thumb* screws, beatinsr thfr old oues of the In* qpitUkra into fils, which M going a good way for tho oid instruments ofinhmxwnifcy must &•»• been very tight fits to-saj tb« los*t of it. When wo assume our proper poiition as solo dictator of (Queensland, we intend to hare » large (juarantina ground set apart,, and fenced in with a girl-proof fen«e. Inside this fence aspiring mo«)«4an«. s)w>tild> hare our full leave 1 iwxi liocrwe- to< mm-der »woot sound* at any hour-of the- day. or night j, outside of it> it should bo death tor anybody who had cot passed & stiff mmical examination to touch a noto. (l'hey might touoh. notes after lh« munnon o» an underpaid bank olenk« and inaur a.U«ser puniahin«nt hut for the more hcinou* oflfenoe, death.) We will give in, to no nwrn in our admiration of ft veally goodt pUnist : wlteo the ivory i*. daftly preMed by gentle practised finger*, white aa. itielf,. we rerol in admiration of performer and peformaooe :■ our whole a«th«tio beintr is filled and thrilled with pleasure 'It sootbifs our paper breast, and lulls the fiercest oritio into rest. But when* mamma, says, ! • Play something, Angelina,' and Anßehn* by ooy reluctance compels ns to add our soft persuasions- to mamma's, and) so bring upon our devoted bead thfrwhol* of hor musioal ropertoire, played) in the jotinl one fihgored styls ot tho proient day.—w;« weaken, wo pass— Gitu) uo-the flewrt shore^, And th« fitorc« tumult Of tho tempAtt's rwn Oh why will poopla porsist in teaching every girl they posses munie, whether she haa tho neoeswrj qualifications for the art or notH Why. above all,, are we haunted evermore by it, swing to modern houses being such admirable conductor* of soundt Wo can escape- Angelina and h«r pianoy. dirootly ;: wo- are not forced to hanjc enraptured 1 over her when aha is making night beautiful with melody, but indineotly wo are- at hor mercy ; she is the bftrrol-organ. nuisanoe of Qusensland, ;and thoro iano peace in the land^exoeptiing flieoes of musiot With nose 'uplifted' in soorn, with logs defiantly spread, an editor aat with his hands in his ba^i, and a iangle of tucos- in his head— strum, strum, strum, from- tho first gwy dswn of light, and strum, strum, strum, through most of a woary night, till underneath tboir touoh the inalsument painfully wails, thoy fifciih— you bet — > with a mad duot, and* commenoe in the morning with, scales, *O, girls, with sweethearts dean ( *t g^ds who want to bo wives, * tis not pianos you're wearing out, but tortured brothers' lives.'— J Specialities/ in tho Quocnslander.