MOUTH ORGANISTS’ NATIONAL CONTEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 162, 29 September 1927, Page 16

MOUTH ORGANISTS’ NATIONAL CONTEST

A DEMOCRATIC PASTIME From Land’s End to John o’ Groat’s, states an English journal, the evergrowing army of mouth organists is going into training for the biggest championship contest ever held for players of this instrument. The number of aspirants to honours has become so great that the Mouth Organ League of Great Britain and Ireland has found it necessary to divide England into northern, southern, eastern and western divisions, and preliminary contests will take place during the next few weeks in Newcastle, London, Hull and Liverpool respectively. The four winners will compete in London for the championship of England. The Test Piece There will also be a contest for the championship of Scotland in Glasgow, one for Wales in Cardiff, one for Northern Ireland in Belfast, and one for the Irish Free State in Dublin. The national champions and Mr. G. W. M ixwell, of Dalbeattie, Scotland, the present champion, will then meet for the international championship. All types of people of all ages and both siexes will take part. The contests v/ill be open to amateurs and professionals and to members and nonmembers. Miners will no doubt form the biggest section of competitors, but others will include soldiers, sailors, farm labourers, music-hall artists, a shipping merchant, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a banker. The test piece will be “Annie Laurie,” which has been chosen on the advice of doctors of music, who say it gives ample scope for the expression of individuality.