Liszt taught hundreds of pupils according to the best principles, yet such erroneous principles have prevailed! Disciples of the ivory keys are numerous in our day.

Everybody wants to have a piano, and everybody plays it or thinks he does, which is not always the same thing, and few really understand what the term "to play the piano," so currently used, means.
The harpsichord reigned supreme before the appearance of the piano--an instrument which is beloved by some and execrated by others.

To his utter amazement Reyer was considered an enemy of the pianoforte.

The harpsichord has been revived of late so that it is needless to describe it.

It lacks strength, and that was the reason it was dethroned in a period when strength was everything.