ABSTRACT
Practising has two objects. In a general way the purpose is to secure a perfect performance, but there must be the more immediate object of engraving a perfect record in the brain. The performance is merely the reproduction of the record, just as in the gramophone, and no power on earth can ever make the performance better than the record. Those who are familiar with the process of recording for the gramophone will know what extraordinary care must be taken, and to what endless trouble all those concerned will go. They realize the extreme importance to be attached to the perfect engraving, as the person who engraves on his own brain by practice frequently does not.
