Broadcast Items in Concert

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 9, 12 September 1930, Page 4

Broadcast Items in Concert

AN interesting experiment was carried out in Timaru on Sunday evening, August 31. Simultaneously with a concert taking place in Ashburton, which was being broadcast by 8YA, concert was being given in Timary, and the occasion was taken advantage of to use some of the Ashburton concert for the benefit of the Timaru audience. The opening number by the band was accordingly picked up and reproduced by loudspeaker in the Timaru hall, and later on in the evening another selection, in which the Timaru band was joining, was also reproduced, In this case, six beats on a drum in the Ashburton theatre gave the Timaru band conductor the necesgary cue. It was an interesting instance of how the organisers of concerts in two towns can co-operate by the use of a radio broadcast. As those who heard the Ashburton broadcast know, the coneert given by the Ashburton Silver Band, under Conductor H. J. Osborne, was of partieular merit.