Tinkle, Tinkle
G C. A. WALL has shown a liking, " which has vexed some, for tinkly tunes in Book Shop, so he was the obvious choice to narrate A Memory of Music Boxes, I remain unvexed and enjoyed this programme. Odd corners of New Zealand must hide many enthusiasts for such out-of-the-way matters which might similarly be brought to light. I associate music-boxes with elderly aunts. Not-that any of my elderly aunts own music-boxes, that I know of, but that’s the general notion. The thought that, as mechanical novelties, they might once have excited the young and enthusiastic as much as a juke-box does now had not entered my mind before, and made less incongruous the musical clock playing martial airs which was once thought a fit presentation to an officer retiring from His regiment. The music we were given from these boxes and barrel-organs varies a good deal, though it’s likely that the mechanism. of some is not what it was. But the polyphon, the last grand fling before the gramophone arrived, was a wonder. Incidentally, what one of the announcers meant by saying that the tune called "The Old Hundred" (sic) is "better known to us as a contemporary hymn tune" is better known to him than to me.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 936, 19 July 1957, Page 8
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211Tinkle, Tinkle New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 936, 19 July 1957, Page 8
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