PIANOS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18678, 29 April 1926, Page 11

PIANOS.

TO iaj EDITOX or "THE priss." • Sir, —Permit me to congratulate the Rangiora U.S.A. for their protest, as reported in your issue of Tuesday's date, against the action of the Eangiora Borough Council, in purchasing an Austrian piano, and two German cinematograph machines. This reminds me of the words of the late Sir Frederick Bridge, organist of Westminster Abbey, in the course of a. speech to a well-known society of Church Musicinns, in which he said: "I trust no loyal British subject will ever again lay his hands on a damned German piano." Cr.' Jennings' admission that only one agent was approached, and that no other attempt was made to discover a suitable English instrument, is surely sufficient to disclose the callous, culpable indifference manifested by those responsible in their neglect of the claims of their own national industries. Surely at a time such as this, when unemployment is-stalking through the land like a ghost* and those in the Old Country are straining every sinew to recover ground lost during the war, in order to pay back the well-nigh overwhelming burden of a War Loan, under which all classes are • staggering, the least our local bodies can do is to set an example to the private individual, by "Buving British."—Yours, etc., COLONIAL BRITISHER.