TOUR BY BLIND BANDSMEN
MUSIC PLAYED FROM MEMORY (New Zealand Press Association > AUCKLAND. May 25. The brass band of the New Zca-L-.nd Institute for the Blind which will leave Auckland on May 30 for a tour of the South/Island can play for two hours from memory. All iif music is written in Braille by the bandmaster < Captain G. W. Bowes) and learnt by the bandsmen. For some of its music the band takes its time from the drums, but when thev are not playing, it depend--3n the softly tapping foot of the bandmaster. The 22 members of the band are all male residents of the institute and range in age from 14 to 47. One of the two Maoris in the band ;s totally blind. He is Tumai Taraewa. a skilled piano accordion plavcr and a pleasing singer. Like most institute bandsmen, he can play sever instruments and is expert on the saxophone and euphonium. Robert Gherardi. x\-ho was born in America and educated in England, plays the xylophone, drums and guitar. Another talented bandsman is Seymour Lambert from Wairoa, who s a teacher of Braille symbols. The tour will open in Blenheim on June 1 and finish at Christchurch early in July.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26123, 27 May 1950, Page 3
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