TWO NOVELTY ENTERTAINERS AT 3YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 48, 15 June 1928, Page 7

TWO NOVELTY ENTERTAINERS AT 3YA

BICYCLE PUMP AND PHONO FIDDLE. | Messrs E. H. Hunter and Vernon Lawford, whose novelty items attracted much attention at 8YA, have now joined forces in duet work. The combination is excellent.

The photograph | shows clearly the nature of Mr. Lawford’s single stringed instrument which, as a leading member of a musical combination known as the Napier Minstrels, he played for many years. Mr. Lawford is employed by the Post and Telegraph Department. Mr. Hunter, whose father, Mr. J. B. Hunter, was one of the first bandmasters in Christchurch, is also a civil servant, being employed by the Railway Department. He himself is a bandsman. He plays the tenor horn, but he can extract music from almost anything. The bicycle pump is blown as one would a flute, and is operated on > the trombone principle,