Germany boasts a mouth-organ orchestra of 500 pieces, probably the largest organisation of its kind in the world. It consists of forty musicians, each of them playing from tv.-elve to fifteen instruments. For years the orchestra has been popular in concerts, playing both classical and popular selections on the mouth haips. About eight milss from Portsmouth parchment is being niado by the same methods and with the same tools that were used 1000 years ago on the same site. One of the most laborious and most delicate tasks is dry shaving t.ie sheep skin. After the skin has dried it is necessary to shave it to remove all roughness. For this purpose a semicircular "razor" with double handles is used.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 10 December 1930, Page 17
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120Page 17 Advertisements Column 1 Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 10 December 1930, Page 17
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