OVER 300 BAND ITEMS RECORDED BY NZBS
New Zealand Brass’ Bands Contests, Aucklanders may contemplate the week’s events as a nightmarish experience thankfully past or a notable occasion all too soon over, but one group will remember it as a period of hard work and long hours. This group is the staff ‘of the NZBS_ Auckland recording studios, where, during the week of the contest, 360 items of eight to 12 minutes’ duration were recorded. Some of the technicians worked over 70 hours and finishing time after one particularly heavy day was 5 a.m, As a result of this work the four main National stations ‘were supplied with recordings of the first, second and third -bands -in all the full band competitions and with all the winners of solo contests. These were airfreighted south on the day of the competition or OOKING back on last month’s
at latest the following day, and with the *helpful co-operation of National Airways speedy delivery was ensured, In both the A and B grade Solo contests, in which there were two tests, each of the main National stations was provided with a full set of the first test, with the result that as soon as the final results were announced each station could broadcast the winners playing their first test. All other National stations and the Commercial statiens were supplied at the time of the competitions with items by bands from their home districts, and now the contest is over they may receive on application recordings made by any of the other barids in which they are irfterested. Some of these recordings are now being used in special band sessions re lating to the championships, and many of them, whether broadcast now or not, will be used for ordinary band programmes throughout the year.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 11
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300OVER 300 BAND ITEMS RECORDED BY NZBS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 11
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