Music as a Stimulant.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 17

Music as a Stimulant.

Only those perhaps who have to work hard with their hands realise how stimulating is the effect of music upon their powers, and how much more speedily and adroitly manual labour is accomplished under such conditions. This idea of music and work combined lias been acted upon by many English employers, who find a litt! * outlay on melody in the midst of their workers to be an excellent innovation. A hug.* musical box is used at one large factory, a gramophone on a vast scale at another, while yet another establishment has a superintendent whose duty it is to play and sing to the various work girls committed to her charge. Eor nowadays the “hand” in a London factory does not work under the grinding conditions at one time so sadly prevalent; she has her clubs, her musical evenings, her little social dances, and nights upon which she gets thorough and practical instruction with regard to the making of her own frocks and hats. Ail these things have the most refining influence, ami music not the least potent of them all.