MUSIC OLD AND NEW.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1916, Page 4

MUSIC OLD AND NEW.

Action is being taken by the MiMi< emus' Union to prevent the displacement of vocalists and instrumentalists by tlw automatic musical instruments which are now flooding the market. Henca these modern variations on old tunes:— The minstrel boy to the way liss srone, In the ranks of death you'll find him--'Twa s the new self-playing ticconlcon To the workless push eansijrned hini. "Songs of joy," said the minstrel bard. "Are the source of indu.urial slavery-' They are sum? by wheels and a pastured Cil'd, And I'm slain by moti;inc-aia«l-J knavery." The harp that ones t>:rmi;:h Tara'u Iwlli The soul of music tr.ed Is silent r.ow the agent calls With grumopiicr.es instead. Sound, sound Hie irurupcl. fill tiie ff<— To all tiie ccnsunl world pros'aim i pianoia for your wife Is worth an us s wiihoul the »««»». 0 hark, 0 hear, ,':o\v thin aiC clwf*. Like horns of rllhnd faintly Mowing-Fuli-s'.i'.ed crche:''.r:o!!H are dear, Kut daily the dema:".! ii growing. Sing a song o' sixpence. A pocket full of rye— Four and twenty b!i?!;Mrds Caked in a pie: S.-ch pies no more are f.penMl Bui there's a better, tliinp— Jur patent e'BVophnno'si a 2't 1 . To set before a k'ntf. '' ' —Meibowsc He;!?-