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This is addressed to those mothers of girls and boys who are beginning to be afraid that “music simply isn’t in” their children, it's so hard to keep them interested in it

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She practiced and she practiced
—but she never learned to play

Surely, you never heard of a child who didn’t love music. But practicing—that’s another matter. Nothing is harder or more tiresome work—especially when there are other things going on—doll parties or ball games.

There’s only one way to make practicing less hard and less tiresome—that is to keep in the front of your boys’ or girls’ minds, the fact that some day they are going to be good players, musicians.

But how?

Incentive! They should know what good music is and what good playing is. If you could play and would play for them, they couldn’t ask for a better incentive. They’d practice till their fingers ached to learn to play as well.

But you don’t play. And that is why you need the PIANOLA Player-piano to give your children the incentive you yourself can’t give them. Keeping up their interest will be the least of your worries when a PIANOLA Player-piano comes into your home.

Do you think, because anyone can play the PLANOLA Player-piano, that they will lose interest or become discouraged with their own efforts?

No! They will practice as never before—to be able to do with their own two hands what the PIANOLA Player-piano does so perfectly. It is the greatest incentive in the world to make girls and boys want to be good players and try to be.

And then think of your world of beautiful music, of finished masterly playing, to offset the finger exercises and scales you listen to while your children are still beginners.

When you go to hear the Pianola Player-piano be sure you hear the genuine PIANOLA—not just a player-piano. Pianola does not mean any player-piano. It is our trade-mark name. There is a vast difference, as you will understand when you have heard the effects of the Metrostyle and Themodist, two exclusive Pianola Player-piano features. The least expensive Pianola Player-piano at $550, gives you these and other exclusive Pianola features that even the highest priced of other players cannot give you. We suggest that you read “The Pianolist,” a book by Gustave Kobbé, for sale at all book stores. We should be pleased to send you a copy with our compliments if you will address Department “D.’

THE AEOLIAN COMPANY

Aeolian Hall New York

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