Excerpt from A Pedal Method for the Piano The amount of criticism great pianists have called forth would fill volumes. The touch, technique, power, individuality, interpretation and intellectuality of each have been carefully noted; yet one point has been left untouched, and that one of the most important, viz.: the pedal - the life giving power to the pianist, that which vitalizes a composition as the sunlight vitalizes dormant colors, or the breath the human body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.