Musical.
THE BLUFF BAND.
Many people wondered why the Bluff baud came last in the test selection in tbe contest at Mosgiel, after having won the quickstep competition. The explanation is found in the following extract from the report given in the Dunedin Star :
The Bluff band, as winners of the afternoon, received a hearty round of applause as they mounted the platform, but lock did not favour them, for the electric light went out just as they came to the trombone solo, and, starting again from that point a minute later the same experience befell them a second and then a third time. Notwithstanding this disconcerting influence tbe Bluff boys went on steadily, and finished a performance in which tune was satisfactory throughout, and the solos well up to the standard (the trombone deserving a special word of praise) the only faults noticed by the public being a tendency to roughness on the part of the basses, and the clipping short of notes that should have been held on to in one or two of the full-band passages.
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Southern Cross, Volume 10, Issue 31, 8 November 1902, Page 7
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179Musical. Southern Cross, Volume 10, Issue 31, 8 November 1902, Page 7
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