MUSIC-TEACHING SIMPLIFIED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 10

MUSIC-TEACHING SIMPLIFIED.

Increasing interest is being taken in a remarkably, ing.enious invention of a Napier young lady (Miss A.- B.'Sheath) for teaching the elements of music by. means, of . models. Tho Bluebell Music Teacher, and Bluebell' Blocks are. used. conjointly, -the-'-for-mer by the. teacher, and 'the latter by tlio pupils." ,The - Teacher s 'portion is a wire frame,. on which ato suspended.the various.' are -TS all -told—-re-presenting, black botes,' open' notes.-'rests, key signatures, etc/ The blocks are just like the coloured blocks of childish housebuilding, only, they teach; the child puts them together, aiid learns almost without lniowing . it. By the use of'the Teacher and tho/Blocks, mtfch' ; tedious work "in manuscript"" and" oh the blackboard may be dispensed with. .There are sufficient notes, otc., to build bars of five-finger exercises, ..scales,' or part' of any. piece of music , that the teacher may wish the pupil to sing or memorise. ; The Convent at Hill Street, 1 and tho Convents in Auckland, Blenheim, and Masterton, have " ordered the Bluebell outfit, and aro using it with much satisfaction. Some privato teachors have also taken it up. Pupils can buy tho set of blocks at a very reasonable figure. The Bluebell, Music Teacher .and Blocks were exhibited .to tlie recent; .Conference of School Inspectors', and. are; an exhibition at the Dresden.' •