DANCE FOR DEAF MUTES
Six blind musicians provided music for 600 deaf and dumb people at a dance in Leeds Town Hall, Mr Leslie Ashworth of the Leeds Training School for the Blind, said: "Deaf and dumb people can dance by watching the steps of couplefi whose hearing ip normal. We formed the band at the Blind School for our own amusement. We listen in to broadcasts of dnnee music, and then go and practise the tunes. Blind people have a natural sense of rhythm. We have no conductor, of course."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22566, 9 May 1935, Page 3
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91DANCE FOR DEAF MUTES Otago Daily Times, Issue 22566, 9 May 1935, Page 3
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