MYSTERY NOTE
N the middle of the slow movement of the Schubert 4th Symphony (The Tragic) which was being broadcast by the National Orchestra in a_ studio concert on May 9, the small studio audience was startled to hear a loud sustained note gradually dominate the orchestra. At first it sounded as if the key on a wind instrument had jammed and was producing only one note, then technicians hurried out to check the .feed-back on the speaker system. After several minutes the mysterious note disappeared, but it was not until after the concert that the reason for it was discovered. Outside in the street two drunks had been having an argument over a car horn. To settle it one of them leant on the horn which sounded a prolonged A Flat and fitted neatly into the key of the movement.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 6
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141MYSTERY NOTE New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 6
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