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i’ THE FuH
IT IS A PLAYER
PIANO PLUS- =
Why are the world’s great pianists
they invariably strike the correct notes?
‘great? Is it because
No-absolutely no! If
x. i Q”-
tlzat were the foundation of a pianist’s reputation. their music would be no better
than that of the ordinary playzr piano-for all player pianos strike the correct mm.
Technique plus expression -
these are the great things that make great
pianists great and these are the things that
all player pianos, witlz one exnptim, lack.
The Solo-Apollo is a player piano plu:
expression-a player piano plus each and
every quality that you'll find in the soul or
the brain or the fingertips of the great pian-
ists of the world.
Think of it! The Solo-Apollo
accents the melody likea master, or omits
it altogether, playing only the accompani-
ment and transposes the accompaniment
into any of eight different keys. No other
player piano in the world has eversucceeded
in
oin g this.
And every detail of the Solo-
Apollo is perfect.
Motor rewinds the music without touching the
pedals. Youneversaw
tlmtinanyotherplayer.
It is exclusive with the
Apollo. The Auto-
Tracker-the Down
Touch on the keys-
like a human being.
These are a few of the
things that render
Apollo music possible.
Don't these things make the Apollo worth looking into? We'll be glad
to furnish full information if you will furnish your name and address.
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March
the same benefit
from physical
activity that we
get from stretch-
ing ourselves
here in the herb-
age, in that it
empties, if it
does not pacify,
the mind. The
proneness of the
age to athletics
is commendable,
because cura-
t i V e, a n d t h e
fl i g h t o f t h e
farmer boy from
his fields to get a
job as clerk, and
the efforts of
mechanic labor
to shorten its
hourstonothing,
are not com -
mendable. Try
being in a hurry
to find how it
numbs the other
bothers, makes
‘us think small,
makes us care-
less, of destiny.
If Socrates had
lived at the
Piraeus and had
been obliged to
catch the stage
for Athens every
morning, and if
Plato had bolted
his steak while
watching his
clepsydra to see
HE effect of Nature’s ‘friendship ought
in to be the same as that of art, and if I
see farmers, sailors and philosophers aright,
it is so. Too much striving, study, thought,
gain. Too many nerves, and not blood and
bones enough. Too many pounding Nature
-with hammers, to see what it is made of. Not
enough content that Nature is. A successful
man said to me, “ I can sit on the veranda for
an hour, and never think once.” He can have
vacations often. In some situations we‘ get
that he was not late at the oflice, we should
have had two philosophers the less.
A need of the human mass is a better love for
beauty, which not merely delights and inspires,
but purifies and tranquilizes. I frankly admit
that I do not believe a great deal of the bad
that is told about the Greeks, for their
sculpture and buildings are the work of strong,
chaste minds. Of all constructions in stone
and metal that the world has seen, theirs have
the least of passion. In some lights they are