MUSICAL EDUCATION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 5

MUSICAL EDUCATION

FEATURE OF ENGLISH SCHOOLS. SYDNEY, Aug. 29. Mr Arthur Dibley, assistant managing director of W. H. Baling and Co., Ltd., who returned to Sydney yesterday by the Aberdeen and Commonwealth liner Moreton Bay, after a business visit to the United Kingdom, said that English public schools were niakin ga.special feature of musical education. Thus, despite the hold of mechanical music, a new generation was growing up with the acquisition of the art of manual playing. One effect of this attention to musical education, continued Mr Dibley, was that publishers of classic and teaching music were enjoying comparative prosperity, in contrast to publishers of jazz, whose business had been seriously affected by the depression. Manufacturers of pianos were also beginning to experience an increased demand, and were anticipating a substantial increase in sales. People who had let their pianos lie idle for years were also having them tuned again, which was a healthy sign. Player-pianos had never taken such a hold in England as in the United States and Australia, said Mr Dibley. Wireless had been a tremendous influence for the betterment of musical tastes. Tn all business in England Mr Dibley found a strong development of the idea of trade within the Empire.