ESKIMO MUSIC
GRAMOPHONE POPULAR. The Eskimo must be the great music-lover. It is said of him that he will sit on his native ice for hour listening to the gramophone. His own music he makes on an instrument which consists of a skin tightly stretched over the frame of a hoop—half drum and half tamborine. Eight players of eight of these instruments make an Eskimo orchestra. With each man striking the one note on his instrument with a rod, the eight notes of the octave are produced. Also, the musician sings as he plays. Needless to say, the people nourished on this music are amazed by the more civilised music of Europe, and it is said of them that they greatly appreciate gramophone records of singers. Strangely enough too, they prefer most other music to jazz, which receives their least enthusiasm.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3264, 6 February 1926, Page 14
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141ESKIMO MUSIC Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3264, 6 February 1926, Page 14
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