The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment. - Jacques Barzun

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Jacques Barzun: "The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment."

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Bourgeois	Devices	Drawingroom	Education
Entertainment	Excellence	Furniture	Grownup
Instrument	Massive	Most	Name
Piano	Prosperity	Sign	Social
Tortured	Young

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