We've got to alter your touch--your technique's entirely wrong--but if you're content to concentrate on that, we'll soon show some progress.

You'll have to stick to simple studies this term: no blazing away into M'Dowell and Rachmaninoff yet awhile." "I'll do anything you tell me," agreed Ingred humbly.
Dr.Linton's manner might be brusque, but he seemed prepared to take an interest in her work.

He was known to give special pains to those whose artistic caliber appealed to him.

In his opinion pupils fell under two headings: those who had music in them, and those who had not.

The latter, though he might drill them in technique, would never make really satisfactory pianists; the former, by dint of scolding or cajoling, according to his mood at the moment, might derive real benefit from his tuition, and become a credit to him.