MUSIC AS STIMULANT
USED IN ARMS FACTORIES
Armament factories have been using music, relayed by loud-speaker, as a stimulant for some time, notes the “Manchester Guardian.” Now the 8.8. C. is seeking to discover what kind cf music has the happiest effect on output. Accountancy will be busily engaged in recording the productive potency of Strauss and “swing” and possibly in assessing even the rival values of Beethoven and Sullivan, of Mozart and “Tin Pan Alley." It would be exciting to discover in a gun factory that “rolling out the barrel" was more accelerated by a classical air than by the rollicking melody of that name. It is alleged that sometimes as' many as 200 loud-speakers are at' work in a single establishment. A cynic might observe that if certairmodern tunes are thus "plugged" the workers might lustily increase their output, hoping that the added roar of the machines would overwhelm this too intense bombardment by a too mechanic Muse.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 2
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160MUSIC AS STIMULANT Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 2
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