The Advance of the Mouth Organ

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)

The Advance of the Mouth Organ

An Instrument that is so well-known 32 the mouth organ and offered for in so many shapes and grades a W to be regarded too lightly by 8 sober-minded. With the advent . Week, surely the place taken | tiis little instrument in the musical 1 6 of our children should not be over- ‘ Several of our schools have and well trained o| tth organ bands, while a recent a; U fl e Education Gazette showed nstration of a mouth organ band , which contained no ji r , 8r t * lan 58 performers (boys and

u °® e look down upon tl«; losi orsan > thinking that they are Prestige they even admit that could & Bma " P iec e of workmanship 5, l >oS3 ihly be a musical lustrums' However, provide a good*v»n y instru ment and a player of ■host ° Dly medium standard and the t> re J u <Jiced will be surprised at toj ( Bsil) ilities and the quality of the t*l° produc ed by this much underorg tittle Instrument. The mouth ■tstru S not a toy ’ kilt a real mus * c al to ji ent that can be recommended % cnh PUbliC With every confidence, ’’■bile * rat * ng an appreciation for the ° r school mou th organ, the parent of mni * teacher is sowing the seed Mil ev ® us ' ca l appreciation, which mu sicai “tually blossom into bands, thus i "O'-ieties, orchestras, etc., ttmic,) , ea6 iag and widening the Knowledge of his district.