THE JAZZ PIANO
MUSICIANS ANNOYED LIFE OF INVENTOR THREATENED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 4. The Budapest correspondent of the * Sunday Times ’ states that Hungarian jazz orchestras have addressed a formal appeal to Herr Szerkeres, inventor of the jazz piano, to suspend the manufacture of the instrument lest musicians world-wide should be deprived of a livelihood. Herr Szerkers ignored the protest, and held a concert in Budapest, whereafter he received a letter signed “desperate jazz players,” threatening to bomb his home and deprive him of all interest in the success of the invention.
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Evening Star, Issue 20375, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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93THE JAZZ PIANO Evening Star, Issue 20375, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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