WOOD INSTRUMENTS.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —As a lover of band music, and one who is pleasantly anticipating the coming to this I>ominion of the band of the Grenadier Guards, I have often wondered why the beautiful- wood instruments are so conspicuously absent from the bands of New Zealand, especially the military ones. Beautiful effects can be produced from -wood instruments that cannot be emitted from brass. We have a Garrison Band in our city, and I venture to say that it is not a military band without wood instruments. If I am wrong I will stand correction. Why is it? Is it because a band containing wood instruments w-ould be ineligible to compete in a brass band contest ? Surely that difficulty could be surmounted by dropping the reed at the contest, regrettable as the apparent necessity is. Let us have by all means the beautiful clarionette, flute, and piccolo, with all their glorious effects.—l am. etc, W. E. CUTLER. 39 Ada Street, Palmerston North.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 9 November 1934, Page 6
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