The late great humorist Milt Gross wrote an unforgettable version of the Ferry Tail from Keeng Midas in a splended collection called Nize Baby, available, I believe, in a Dover reprint. This priceless compendium of grim tales includes a scene in which the hungry King Midas is unable to eat his peas: every time he tries to chew them they turn to solid gold and break his teeth. So he has his vassal stand opposite him with the peas in a peashooter, wot he should swallow de pees witout chewing de pees. Or something to that effect - I can imitate the dialect but the spelling is difficult. Like music, these words are meant to be heard.
This peashooting is the perfect model of dutiful piano playing: we should play the music without its touching us.
