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Radio Record, 22 July 1938, Page 23

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WHEN Alexander Kipnis was told that the chiming clock in the Dunedin Octagon was almost immediately above the Town Hall Concert Chamber. in which he was to sing, he was slightly perturbed. During his Australian tour, chiming clocks had sometimes interfered with his recitals. It had happened in Hobart where the clock, sounding very clearly, was tuned to the key of C major. This was particularly annoying when he was singing a Schubert number in D major. So Mr. Kipnis did what very few singers would have done. He promptly transposed the song from D major to C major, thus effecting synchronisation with his persistent orchestral accompaniment.