Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1909 — Perry Horton May Try To Beat World’s Piano Record. [ARTICLE]

Perry Horton May Try To Beat World’s Piano Record.

Perry Horton, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Horton, Las an ambition to try to beat the world's long-distance piano record, and J. H. S. Ellis, owner and manager of the Ellis Theatre, has arranged to have the attempt made at his play house. Perry is a good musician and believes he has the endurance to equal or excel the record made by Roy Harding, a young man who was here with a show company during the summer and who brought proof to show that he had played a piano continuously for 36 hours and 36 minutes. The contest will begin at 10 o'clock Friday morning, Nov. 26th, and the conditions of the contest are that Perry shall not remove his hands from the piano during the period of the contest. On Friday and Saturday nights picture shows will be run in connection with the piano performance. An admission of 10 eents will be charged but no “pass out” checks given. The piano on which Perry will perform will be raised 19 inches from the floor, so that he can either sit or stand and move around. His mother will feed him, friends will fill his pipe and light it for him, and a doctor will be in constant attendance to look after him in case be shows signs of giving out under the strain. The undertaking is a large one, but Perry is gritty and enters Into the contest with the belief that he can perform on the piano for 37 hours consecutively, which would require him to play continuously from Friday morning at 10 •’clock until Saturday night at 11 o’clock. It is probable that the attendance will be very large as many people will wish to see the plucky youngster in his attempt to beat the world’s record on the piano.