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responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and m9 ky?A,
as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most pA\ "Xe&
training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an
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particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s TO/SiOd
responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that ]C-a[
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