Excerpt from Horsecars and Cobblestones IT was lonely in the great big parlor that late winter afternoon. I was all by myself on the floor, practicing at the big shining black piano. Emma, our Polish girl, was singing in the kitchen below. I could hear her Whenever I stopped banging the piano. She was enjoying herself, While I had to do the scales, C major, A major, F major, then the minor scales, fingers stumbling here, racing there, anything to finish. At last I closed the exercise book. What a relief! Now for the ...
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Excerpt from Horsecars and Cobblestones IT was lonely in the great big parlor that late winter afternoon. I was all by myself on the floor, practicing at the big shining black piano. Emma, our Polish girl, was singing in the kitchen below. I could hear her Whenever I stopped banging the piano. She was enjoying herself, While I had to do the scales, C major, A major, F major, then the minor scales, fingers stumbling here, racing there, anything to finish. At last I closed the exercise book. What a relief! Now for the Piece, the Faust March. The teacher was coming the next day, so I simply had to learn it. I stretched my fingers for the big chords, counting out loud, one, two, three, four - one, two, three, four. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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