Musical Family Holds Annual Festival
PERIOD INSTRUMENTS lhe motto unity is strength serves tho Dolnietsch family, whose annua! festival of old chamber music was held at Haslemere, in Surrey, in July. The larger this remarkable family grows the more it holds together. At this year's festival there were 12 members taking part in the music-making, "lhe oldest is Arnold Dolnietsch, who was born in Switzerland 79 years ago, and is still a great musician. Tho youngest is Arnold Dolnietsch »ard the old man's grandson, aged six, who plays the recorder, a kind of flute. Tho family not only play, but make the authentic period instruments on winch they give such beautiful performances. Ihey make harpsichords, clavichords, virginals, lutes, pipes, recorders, ancient harps and viols. The keyed instruments sell in America. Germany buys hundreds of recorders.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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135Musical Family Holds Annual Festival New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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