STRANGE NOISES TO SELL APPLES
EARS hence, when his grandson climbs on his knee and pipes, "Tell me, Grandpa, what did you do in the great Apple Query?" a certain Commercial Broadcasting Service executive will be able to say proudly, "I held a microphone out in the rain and under a waterfall; I dropped coins into a basin; I also imitated several animals." Truth to tell, in spite of the many suggestions for Apple Query noises which come in from listeners, the people at the CBS head office are hard put to it at times to contrive new and novel combinations of noises. So if you happen to see someone hiding furtively in his coat collar, while holding a microphone alongside a locomotive whistle, the chances are that he is not an enemy secret service agent, but a quite harmless CBS executive adding another noise to his repertoire. In one of the most original questions yet broadcast, listeners were asked the other Saturday to nominate which of three violins played was a Stradivarius. The Strad, a fine instrument which was once the property of the late Archbishop Redwood, was bequeathed by him to St. Patrick’s College, Wellington. The contest is gaining momentum week by week, and if listeners to the ZB’s buy apples as enthusiastically as they send in entries, it won’t take long to dispose of New Zealand’s apple surplus. pS Se a ae ee Se
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 7
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237STRANGE NOISES TO SELL APPLES New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 7
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