The Evening Bulletin

Signor Arturo Nuttini is a blind pianist who is not a freak, but a player of remarkable ability. He was born in Florence 83 years ago and became totally blind in his first year, but he now plays the most difficult rhapsodies of Liszt, sonatas of Beethoven and other classical compositions with wonderful technic and expression. While Paderewski and his contemporaries play Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 6," one of the most difficult compositions, in a transposed key, Signor Nuttini plays it in the original key—six sharps.

The way Signor Nuttini learns his pieces is curious. He has a little machine, consisting of a flat metal board, in which there are tiny grooves, over which he fits a sheet of thick paper, and with the aid of a little ruler and awl, perforates all his music in a peculiar manner as his interpreter reads it from the regular staff. No music is too intricate for him to copy, and often after once copying the composition he can play it without first running his sensitive fingers over the perforations. San Francisco Argonaut.