People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — A Chinese Description of the Plano. [ARTICLE]

A Chinese Description of the Plano.

A Chinaman, lately returned from a trip to Europe, treated his countrymen to the following description of the piano: “The Europeans keep a large four-legged beaot, which they can make to sing at will. A man, or more frequently a woman, or even a feeble girl, sits down in front of the animal and steps on its tail, while, at the same time, striking its white teeth with his or her fingers, when the creature begins to sing. The singing, though much louder than a bird’s, is pleasant to listen to. The beast doos not bite, nor does it move, though it is not tied up.”—Das Neu® Blatt. A fcunelino ayslum in Moscow, es tablished aver one hundred years ago, by Catharine 11., has been supported entirely by a tas on playing naidn