PIANO AND FIDDLE

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1925, Page 7

PIANO AND FIDDLE

WILL SOON BE OUT OF DATE. LONDON, July 25. In an interview with a “Star” representative, Mr J. Squire, the celebrated ’cellist, declared that the amateur musician, also musical evenings, were disappearing, having been extinguished by the gramophone and broadcasting. He said: •‘The piano and fiddle will soon be as out of date in the average British heme as antimacassars and waxtlowors. Aesthetically this is a healthy movement, Music will now be left to the man who knows, and is prepared to spend a lifetime on the job.” MATTHAY’S REPLY. The well-known piano teacher, Tobias Matthay, replying to Mr Squire, declares that the gramophone, piano player and broadcasting had unproved the national appreciation of good music, London suburbs formerly were full of amateur duffers, whose efforts wore excruciating. Musicians wme now playing with something like technical perfection.