ESKIMO “MUSIC”
THREE TUNES AT ONCE A STRANGE BROADCAST Over the air, through the Canadian network, has been broadcast as strange a programme as can fall (o the lot of any slation—an Eskimo band, with ancient German instruments playing three tunes at once. This story was vouched for by Mr Frank Willis, producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who arrived at Sydney recently. Mr \\ illis said that one of his recent .tasks was to accompany a scientific expedition last summer to the Arctic Circle, where broadcasting experiments were being made away from inan-made static. “I found many Incidents to make me laugh, ' he said. “The Eskimos are a nomadic race. In their wanderings one .crowd that we met had obtained the old instruments of a defunct German band—trombone and all. “They had learned to play the instruments in a sort of way. All might have been well if they had not attempted to play ‘God Save the King,’ ‘Lead, Kindly Light,’ and ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers' at the same time. You can imagine the result. But they liked it."
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20693, 31 December 1938, Page 15 (Supplement)
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