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Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1928, Page 2

• FARMYARD “VOICES.” t. . < . a pigjV-a sheep, a horse and a Vpeal quartet, and say which iscthe. contralto, soprano, tenor and bass'” 'said : Mr Geoffrey Shaw, H.M. Inspector of Music, during his lecture on oral training to the members of the Summer Course in Music at ’ Oxford. His audience endeavoured to reproduce, .the voiced of the respective animals..but few:, if any, classified them correctly. Ultimately Mr Shaw announced: i ‘The pig is the bass, the horse the soprano, the sheep the contralto"' and the cow the tenor.” The last lecture by Dr George Dyson, Director of Music, Winchester College, also resolved itself into a lively entertainment, the audience supplying half of it in the shape of sight-reading, okl antjhems and madrigals. “You cannot sing madrigals for toffee,” Dr Dyson shouted, “and your tenors are unspeakable. I am-sure if Orlando Gibbons came back from the dead and heard several hundred ot you singing now he would have a fit on the spot. Your singing is like nothing human. •It is so rough that it sounds move like a cough. I should suspect yon of eating too much.”

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