Desperate Musicians.
LONDON, January 5. The Budapest correspondent of the “Sunday Times” says that Hungarian jazz orchestras have addressed a formal appeal to Herr Szerkeres, inventor of the jazz piano, to suspend manufacture of the instrument, lest musicians throughout the world should be deprived of their livelihood. Herr Szerkeres ignored the protest and held a concert in Budapest, after which he received a letter signed “Desperate Jazzplayers *’ threatening that a bomb explosion at his home might deprive him of all interest in the success of his invention.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18960, 6 January 1930, Page 2
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