p.58 If Chopin has come to mean so much to us where piano music is concerned we have to thank Schumann and Liszt in the first place, and Pachmann in the second.

p.63 Small wonder was it that Pachmann declared that it was not until he was turned seventy that he completed his technique. p.64 He was right when he said that true pianism takes every waking moment of one's life to attain.

p.65 Chopin's method of playing was simplicity itself. With him there were no lateral movements—much less rotary; his wrists were always slightly depressed; his entire action came from them, or else from his fingers of which the middle joints were kept, in all circumstances, in a direct line with his forearm. Arm-weight and other such terms were unknown to him. Such playing as his was never heard again until Pachmann reached his height; when he goes one is left to wonder when another will arise who will strike chords as he had struck them, who will use his nerves instead of his muscles, and who p.66 will never forget the tonal limits of an instrument which was not designed to send forth the same volume of sound as a cathedral organ.