BRASS BANDS
Sir,-I was pleased to see that you ‘fglt called on to defend and justify your stand re brass bands. In my opinion you, | missed the essentials. A brass. band is the only mobile instrument capable of leading singing at any public gathering, apart, from any other of its arduous duties. It is an easily available method of teaching youth the rudiments of music quickly and well. Take a son and a daughter (as I did), put the boy, in a band and the girl at the piano, and see who reads capably first and in a fraction of the time occupied on the piano. I doubt if there is an orchestra in New Zealand, and I have played in a lot, that is not indebted to the brass bands for a lot of their players. Give the children the grounding and they will go on to other instruments, or how do’ you account for so many that play two or three orchestral instruments? I grant: that even for an ex-bandsman a symphonic programme appeals more, but it is almost invariably composed of professionals. Now that we have the records of at least four contests, Christchurch, Dunein, Wanganui, and Auckland, would it not be possible, when the local bands are unavailable, to put on some of these? For anyone who has the slightest respect for sharps and flats, the pipes mean turning the radio off (I am of Highland descent).
EX-BANDSMAN
(Hamilton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 509, 25 March 1949, Page 5
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243BRASS BANDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 509, 25 March 1949, Page 5
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