GRAMOPHONE MUSIC

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 24, 30 December 1927, Page 4

GRAMOPHONE MUSIC

TRGED IN AUSTRALIA. The radio writer for the Melbourne "Argus" says: "Iivery listener will agree that some of the items now being produced by artists could very well be replaced by gramophone selections. Probably in Australia more than in Great Britain or the United States the broadcasting of a certain proportion of gramophone mimusic is justified. Those wh» have criticised the programmes from the main stations have been forced to admit that it is sometimes difficult to obtain artists. , (Gramophone music of the better kind is now so good that it is strikingly like an original performance. This being so, the use of a gramophone makes it possible for the broadcasting companies to provide listeners with a: kind of music which many of them’ would have no other opportunity of: hearing. So long as the gramophone © music broadeast is of first quality, and so long as too much of it is not provided in each programme, there can he no reasonable objection to it. It is when broadcasting companies begin to depend on gramophones for producing dance music and other programmes of the kind, which can be provided so much better by a studio orchestra, or to use the gramophone to avoid the engagement of satisfactory artists, that listeners are justified in complaining.