ENGLAND'S NIGHTINGALES.
f_ A wonderful thing has been done in England . . . the song of the nightingale has been captured for all the World to hear. ; ■' r ' ' .- - ■. ■ It has not been easy to do. The apparatus has cost a. little fortune It is a complete recording room built on a motor body, with michophones attached to it by electric' cables, and these were hung on tranches of ; trees near the nests of the nightingales in a Surrey garden. •. . : Night after night Miss 'Beatriep Harrison sat out among the trees softly playing her cello. Then, late one evening, as the shadows-lengthened and. the moon rose above the trees, there came a trill and a burst of song. One nightingale after another joined in till therewere 15 of them singing in full chorus to the cello's accompaniment. Perhaps still more wonderful is the record to be called Dawn. The record was taken just as the sun was rising above the horizon. A nightingale first responds to the cello's invitation -and then he is joined by blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, and sparrows, and last, borne by the breeze from a distant farmyard, comes the crowing of a cock. What a wonderful picture of home that record will give to exiles far away, as well as to thosuands of people in crowded cities who have never heard the nightingale!
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 14
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223ENGLAND'S NIGHTINGALES. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 14
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