PIANOFORTITUDE.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 193, 14 August 1909, Page 15

PIANOFORTITUDE.

CLERGYMAN GETS RELIEF FROM NEIGHBOUR'S EXCESSIVE TLAYING. An amusing story of a clergyman who went to the seaside for the benefit of his health and complained that be had a relapse because of the excessive playing of the piano next door was told during the hearing of an action at Llandudno County Court (Wales). Instead of music's charms soothlug the savage breast, they seem to have evoked the clergyman's Ire. "That 'piano," he said, "was n nuisance." It was played for three hours in the morning, three hours In the afternoon, and sometimes for three hours at night. "I could not use the study," said the plaintiff -(the Rev. E. T. Owen), "or do anything In the house, and was obliged to go out to escape the noise." Even theu he was chased by the "music" 100 yards. "A hundred yards?" said the vlenr of Llandudno. "The rectory Is three hundred yards away, and we hear the piano continually. (Laughter.) in fact," he suld, "the music Is the Joke of the locality, and year, when a garden party was being arranged In the rectory grounds, the renuirk was made that no band would be necessary, as the piano in question would answer the purpose." (Ijiughter.) The defendant denied playing more than two and a half hours dally, but the Judge gave nominal damages of £1, and granted an Injunction. Stay of execution was ordered In view; of a possible appeal.