Picture Play Magazine (1938)

ZMvmk New Invention! No more fumbling al the keys! No more endless practicing of scales! The wonderful "Note Finder" shows you where every note is located. Ymi soon become familiar with tin keyboard. Now You Can Play Any Instrument by this Amazingly Simple Method VERYTHING is clear, simple, easy to understand. You can learn to play your tvorite instrument by actual notes. Take the piano, for example. Instead of jmbling at the keys, trying to locate the roper notes, you merely use the "Note inder," the wonderful invention that tells ~m exactly which keys to strike. And the "Note Finder" is a new shortut exclusive with the U. S. School that jakes it possible to learn in a surprisingly lort time. You actually play a real tune .most at the very start ! And it is only a natter of weeks before you will surprise our _ friends — and yourself — with vanmazing progress. Yet this is no "trick" lethod. There are no "numbers," no "memory stunts." l'ou learn to play by note, ust as the best musicians do. ut the drudgery has been iminated. This new method as agreeable as it is rapid. strange as it may .seem, ■uTI really enjoy every minite of it. Learn to Play Popular Music at Sight ilmost before you realize . you'll be able to pick up le average sheet music and nderstand it ! You'll learn ^ read music, popular and lassie, and play it from the Otes. You'll acquire a lifetig ability to entertain your riends, amuse yourself, and you like, make money in Here's Proof! Read altiit our ijn/iils sat) Wouldn't Take $1,000 for Course The Lessons arc so simple that anyone can understand them. I have learned to play by note in a little more than a month. I wouldn't take a thousand dollars for my course. S. E. A.. Kansas City, Mo. Grateful to U. S. School I want to say that words cannot express my gratitude for the I". S. School of Music. I didn't know I could learn to play tin:: •: ■■■■, waj My v hoi heart's desire was to know how to play, so 1 can play any piece I like. Miss I. W. 11'. rant ego, X. C. one of the most pleasant and best paid of professions. You'll be popular and admired, showered with invitations to good times, welcomed wherever you go. Yes, you'll reap golden rewards from the few minutes a day you spend learning to play. You need no private teacher, no special talent. And the cost is trifling, only a few pennies a day. What's more, all your sheet music, dozens of pieces, is supplied without extra cost ! What instrument will it be? The piano, violin, saxophone, guitar, piano accordion? Choose your favorite — you'll be amazed to discover how quickly you can learn it. Every step is made crystal clear in print — and pictures. First you are told how a thing is done, then a picture shows you how. Even a child can learn by this A-B-C method. Yet it is so absolutely right that accomplished musicians find it a revelation. Free Book and Demonstration Lesson Why miss all the pleasure that music holds for j i tu : Why be out of it because you can't play? Send today for Free Proof that you CAN learn to play — in less time and with less effort than you perhaps ever imagined. The coupon below will bring you a fascinating illustrated booklet and a demonstration lesson that will open your eyes. Also full particulars of the wonderful offer now open to you. Over 700,000 others have enrolled and studied this home study method. Now it's your turn. There is absolutely no cost or obligation in sending for the FACTS. If you are really anxious to become a good player on your favorite instrument, mail the coupon or write — but do it NOW. (Note: Instruments supplied when needed, cash or credit.) U. S. School of Music, 531 Brunswick Bldg., New York City, X. Y. Fortieth Year (Established 1898) y CHECK YOUR FAVORITE INSTRUMENT U. S. School of Music 531 Brunswick Bldg., New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Please send mo free Demonstration Lesson ami Booklet explaining how 1 can learn music at homo in a few minutes a day. 1 am interested in: Piano Banjo Trombone Violin Mandolin Flute Guitar Ukulele Piccolo Accordion Cornet Organ Saxophone , Trumpet Drums and Traps 'Cello Harp Harmony and Hawaiian Guitar Clarinet Composition Voice Culture Ilave you