Letters to the Editor.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 617, 4 May 1876, Page 3

Letters to the Editor.

818, — Mhiicul people are proverbially difficult to manage, lines they invariably think all ri<?ieulously wrong who differ from themaelvos, and moit presumptuous if they venture to suggest 4mj improrcment. Why then should ire throw a stumbling blook in their way by adopting to many different chant books in our churohei. -Out congregations an 1 moit of tbo*e who compot* our choirs, know so little of music that they expect thn leader to ohant according to their own peculiar itjle of pointing, i no matter -what book tbej may be accustomed to, and many do much mischief by their fooliih remarks to others, and I haro seen sereral choir* broken up by these ignorant grumblers. Sinoe the Auckland choirs have united, wouldn't it be an improvement it all our country ■<churohea were to join the 'Auckland Choral Union,' which would insure some uniformity in our church music, and prevent those very unpleasant misunderstanding which must arise, so long as « very choir has a different chant book of its own. lam told that our Clergyman is only •waiting theyoneent of the Bjnod to introduce ** Church Symaa' here instead of the muoh doipised Hymnal. Would not the most independent course be to try the new book now, that he might be able to speak with that authority, which experience alone can give, when the •flyood meets. After keeping us waiting so long for » new hymn book, it would hardly be wise for the Synod to adopt one for the whole diocese, 'before it had been praotically tested in some of our churches to asoertain its chances of pepularity.— I am, &o, Ha«uo»T. Te Awamutu. May Ist 1876.