SIGHING BANDS
QUEER WAILING INSTRUMENTS. I Tango bands are to become a fen ture of London’s dance life this winter. The band consists of a piano, two bandoleons, a symphonia, guitar, harmonium, and a mandolin. A tenor singer, who accompanies the musicians, is an essential part of the band. The bandoleon is a species of large concertina, with a keyboard at each end, producing a sound resembling a mingling of the notes of a guitar and of a mandolin. It is said it can “sigh'Tike a heart-sick lover.” It takes a year to learn to play the instrument properly. Continual playing ‘of "the inStrpTpent "causes; trouble - in the fingers. Some bandoleon pbjpy e'rs are' paid' as much as, £BO a week. : A* hymphoiiia; ie. Another - specif" of;.; large concerting, and with 'thej bando- | leon-gives to the muaic its peculiar': dreamt wail; "
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Gisborne Times, Issue 10191, 31 December 1925, Page 8
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141SIGHING BANDS Gisborne Times, Issue 10191, 31 December 1925, Page 8
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