Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum

Piano Lessons

Harry started piano lessons with Miss Florence Burrus, his next door neighbor. He made such good progress that his mother then sent him to a Kansas City teacher, Mrs. E. C. White, who had studied under Theodore Leschetitzky, a very famous European m usician of the time.

Illustration by Emal Latifzai, a student
at Bridger Junior High School in Independence, Missouri.

Burrus Home

The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is one of thirteen Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.

500 W. US Hwy. 24. Independence MO 64050
truman.library@nara.gov
;
Phone: 816-268-8200 or 1-800-833-1225;
Fax: 816-268-8295.

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