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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 10

HELPING THE MHSTC TN SCHOOLS MOVEMENT. WELLINGTON FIRM’S GENEROUS OFFER. One of the surprising features of school life in New Zealand during recent years has been the growth of the Music-in-Schools Movement. For this the gramophone has been largely responsible. The introduction of good music into the homes of the peoplemusic that could not possibly be played by the people themselves—has created a real liking for music itself. People are now insisting that their children shall be taught to like music for its own sake. They are also insisting that the music in the • schools shall be the best music. The day of the old hackneyed school song has gone, and with it the cheap, low-grade piano with its tinney tone and rattling keys. Every school should have a good piano, a piano that will create in the minds of the children a real liking and respect for one of the noblest and most popular of our musical instruments. The Wellington firm of Nimmo and Sons have had in their mind for some time past the practicability of finding an ideal school piano—a piano of sound and lasting construction, good tone, not too ornate but yet of good appearance, not too dear, and so built as to enable the teacher seated at the instrument to face the class and observe the children over the top. They have found, in the Hamilton School Model, a piano that completely fills all the requirements of school use. It is offered, to the school 1 at a surprisingly low price. The low price is only possible by the firm’s honest belief in the merit of the instrument and their expectation that the schools will co-operate in sufficient numbers to justify their confidence in a proposition which will attain the object aimed at — good rauric for tlie 4dyt< *