Random reminder

Press, 9 May 1980, Page 15

Random reminder

BE NATURAL

The music theorj’ class shifted hack in its seats and sighed. It eased cramped fingers and stared despairingly at its neighbours. The Music Theory Master collected the manuscripts — the Mid-Term Test in Rudiments of the Theory of Music. It had been hard, and it had been made no easier by the sunshine of a perfect day making the grass outside grow longer, or by the RRR Bang

Clatter RRR of the motor-mower doing wheelies past the window every five minutes, making the grass shorter again. The Music Theory Master put down his sheets of paper. He stepped to the

piano and played a "Your attention for : J one moment, please” phrase. Every J head came up. That was another thing ' that the class envied and despaired of. The man could make that keyboard I i talk. i “Just before you go,” said the Music i Theory Master. “What are we getting t-if we drop a grand piano down a one ■hundred-metre pit shaft?” : Interest, puzzlement, but. . . no, 1 nobody knew what you would get if

you dropped a grand piano down a hundred-metre pit shaft. The Music Theory Master played a mournful scale, do re mi fa . . . “We are getting,” he explained, “A > Flat Miner.”