George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

George Bernard Shaw

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• The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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  • Pianoforte