ONE-STRING ORCHESTRA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 32, 9 February 1915, Page 7

ONE-STRING ORCHESTRA.

'The special correspondent of the London Daily Mirror writ os:- In a. French military hospital near Paris I came across the real thing in impromptu concerts. On a bed sat a wounded but convalescent French soldier playing on a violin of his own make. It consisted of a cigar-box, pieces of wood, a cork and one wire string. The bow was extemporised out of a> piece of bent wood and a few horsehairs. Such was the orchestra. Before the war this Frenchman was the leader of an orchestra in a famous Paris concert hall. Close by stood his friend, also convalescent, wearing the French uniform. He was a professional singer, who had answered the call to arms, and had been wounded in the Held. Accompanied bv the one-string orchestra he sang \ song after song, and the concert ended with the Marseillaise and the British National Anthem, in which all the men in the ward heartily joined.