text:  He placed himself at least a foot from the piano his knees touching the board his body rises perpendicularly from the music-stool his head turns for a moment to either shoulder as if he were glancing at epaulettes thereon and then he looks right ahead; he neither has nor needs a book; with the wide-extended fingers of both hands down he pounces like a falcon on the sleeping keys which caught by surprise now speak out and exert all their energies