WANT OF HARMONY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 12

WANT OF HARMONY.

(Fbom Our Own Cokbespondent.) WELLINGTON, January 22. , Harmony doe 3 not appear to be th«( principal feature of the Conference o£ Musicians now being held at the Town Hall to discuss the desirability or otherwise o£ obtaining legislation in the interests of the profession. Some members, says the P6st m attach great importance to it; others not, and Mr C. D. Mackintosh ie one of then*. He had been teaching, he said, for overt 30 years, and he thought that the reputa- 1 tions of individual teachers afforded them! sufficient protection. The publio soon got' to know who were the best teachers. WEafl was proposed to be the qualification fo? registration? Was it to be, he asked, th<S possession of diplomas and degrees? If so, he would say quite frankly he attached so value to them. He knew of two pupils wha came to him who were M.A.'b, and whp now occupied high jxraitions in the teaching) world. One of them was absolutely ■tone deaf, and the other had 1 no idea at all of time. Personally he had 1 no degree, and) did not believe in them. Should he bej excluded from registration? Perhaps it would be proposed that teachers should nofl engage in teaching more than one instrument. "If so," Mr Mackintosh concluded", amid much laughter, " will a clarionetisfc be Teetrioted to his instrument, and n<X other? I can assure you that a man cannott live on a clarionet alone."

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