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MUSIC for
the Forces." "Mouth Organs from Canada." "An Ever- Growing Need." So ran, the headings in the "Times" the other day over an account of a movement now on foot in Canada to send musical instru- ments to British sol- diers.
It seems that some time ago the Cana dian Federation of Business and Profes- sional Clubs sent a cable to the British Federation of Busi- ness and Professional
Women, asking what
they could do to help the war effort, and that, having been ap- proached by the heads of the Services Musi-
Leave one of them alone with a mouth-organ for a few minutes, and when you returned he would give you a rendering of "Two Lovely Black Eyes" equal to the best Queen's Hall performances. Give him a jew's harp and, though he had never touched the instrument before, he would almost immediately be playing "Clementine" against his teeth with perfection.
May 31, 1941.
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ENGLAND has parted
too easily with a great deal of her musical inheri- tance. Consider her blindness --or deafness-in allowing that great instrument, the bagpipe, to be exiled to Scot- land and Ireland. The bag- pipe, as everyone who is not prejudiced knows, is one of the most inspiring open-air musical instruments ever in- vented. It is equally expres- sive of the grief of man and of his gaiety in the dance: it puts double liveliness into the limbs of marching man.
No one who has heard the music of a Scottish pipers' band as it fades into the distance and the darkness after midnight at the Aldershot Tattoo can
be in a Paganini
These young musical geniuses I envied and did my best to imitate; but, though I tried one instru- I ment after another, could get only vague noises out of them. I did,
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any doubt about the power of the bagpipe over the imaginations and the hearts
of men.
Yet for some reason Eng- land discarded the bagpipe us though it were merely a nul- sance and had outlived its time.
In quite recent years again. another good instrument.
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cal Instruments Fund, mouth organ?
the British Federation replied: "Please col- lect and forward all the mouth organs you can."
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APPARENTLY, the
mouth organ is mainly a German product, though when I was a child it was known as a French fiddle. Like Beethoven's symphonies however, it has come to have a uni- versal appeal, and no one feels that he is turning himself into a quisling musician if he plays a German mouth organ any more than he would if he played a German piano.
Hence one can under- stand the enthusiasm with which Field-Marshal Lord Milne welcomed the ar- rival from Canada of some hundreds of these instruments along with a jew's harp and a "vener- able" but tuneful concer- tina."
There in a sentence you have the names of three of the musical instru- ments that I most longed to be able to play as a small boy. I bought two of them, a mouth organ and a jew's harp, but, try as I would, I could not get a tune out of them. There may, perhaps, have been a faint resemblance to "The Protestant Boys" in the sounds that I wrung out of the jew's harp, but, for the mouth organ, I never could persuade it to produce anything even' as remotely resembling melody as the tune the old cow died of.
Yet other boys seemed to be able to acquire mas- tery of these instruments almost without effort.
perhaps, have a slight suc- cess with the drum; the noises I got out of it were not vague, but quite de- finite. When I went on the penny whistle, how- ever, I could force from it only a sort of raspberry vinegar-music-that-set- other people's teeth edge.
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for musical achieve- ment, none the less, that, having failed with so many - other instruments, I bought a guitar. Even to hold a guitar in your arm is to feel scre- nudes and waltzes under a Spanish moon coursing through your veins. Alas! they never got farther than my veins. After long prac- tice, I could just manage to find the notes of Schumann's "Merry Peasant," but only with a pause of 60 seconds between each 'note and the next.
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Even so, my ardour for mu- slc has never lessened, and I rejoice to see that a movement is gathering force for a revi. val of military music of all kinds from mouth-organs to marches played by the most exhilarating of all orchestras -military bands.
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though musically on a lower plane, has sunk out of favour. Seldom to-day does one hear the twanging of the banjo as one used to hear it 50 years ago. Yet it is only a little more than 40 years since Kipling wrote "The Song of the Banjo." applauding it as
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To-day no one thinks of the banjo as an essential of the British soldier's equipment. If Kipling had remained alive till to-day he would have had to bring his verse up to date with a "Song of the Mouth- Organ." For that seems now to have taken its place.
THE great thing is, how-
ever, to have music of some kind or other. As Field- Marshal Lord Milne said, in expressing his gratitude for the gifts from Canada, "the playing of instruments is ex- hilarating and good for the soul-if not always for those who listen."
It would be a mistake, how- ever, to worry too much about the feelings of those who lis- ten. After all, even the finest pieces of Bach annoy many people who listen, and I know men who would hate listening to the best performance of a Beethoven Symphony as bit- terly as they would hate lis- tening to the worst perform- ance of "Waltzing Matilda". on a mouth-organ.
ever.
There is no need for mouth- organ music to be bad, how- Most bad players either retire soon voluntarily, like myself, from a musical career, or are subdued into allence by their excruciated friends.
Hence I do not look for- ward with alarm to a great increase of mouth-organ noises in England in the near future. I am sure the stan- dard of execution will be`ren- sonably high, and that during the next twelve months I shall not come upon a single soldier who is not able to play the mouth-organ better than I could ever play it myself.
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