KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1917 THI RD SEOTION Musical Musings. The love of music, like should begin at Rome, Musical parentage is the greatest asset in a child's musical education Trying to raise musdcal children in unmusical homes is like attempting to grow sunfiowers in the shade, Isn't it strange that parents who are very much concerned about the cut of their children's clothes and the style of their shoes may yet be absolutely indifferent as to the kind of songs they sing and music they hear? The reason so much piano playing is heartless is that people possess feweg hearts than fingers. Considering the fact that most chil- dren are musical, what a sad commen- tary on parents and music teachers it is that most adults are not! Without trying to be in the least acadengict® 1 tuye "striven from my childhood to grasp the spirit of the wisest and best of all ages.--Beetho- charity, en, " All-my life ] have given the great- est honor to Mozart, and whl continue to do so until my last breath.--Beet- hoven. Demand for Musical Instruments, One of the results of this war apart from the aims that the belliger- ents are now fighting to attain will be the increased spread and appreciation of music, Not only are the soldiers finding solace and stréngth in song on the battlefield, but those members of the family that have been left at home are turning, to music in every form in an effort to brighten the days that are rife with news of war and death. Especially is this found true in the sale and output of player-pianos ---------- phonographs both- instruments which can give pleasure and enjoy- ment to those Je. ast acquainted with the®4rt and techm > of music, So great is the demad for these both in England and France that the output is now too little to meet it The changed economi situation ifn the warring gether wth the innate de dividual to sing, is, in a | ¢ measure, the cause of the awake: interest in music Where before the re was only one member of the family contribut- ing toward the family budget, there are now three and four. The going of the meén to the front has left the industries to the care of the women, and it is now not the exception, but rather the rule, to find the mothers, sisters pose] children of the nation tak- ing some part in the work of keeping the cogs of the hrdastries in ranming order I'his has naturally led to an appreciable increase in the weekly earnings -of a household. From time immeniorial it has been the nature of the human, being to let the 'world know of his rise from a lower strata to a higher one in the layers of society To the lower and middle ¢ es this, in the large ma- has been best express- the possession of a plano as as by the talking machine. As a result of this, much of the surplus earnings of England and France have been invested in these, Apart from the purely psychologi- cal reason of human vanities, there is the deeper one, however, of the peo- ple really seeking some outlet for their pent-up emotions and finding it in the spell of music, means can best be ex- and and industrial buntries, to- sire of the in- Player-Piano Supremacy Supremacy beauty - breadth of tone, in delicacy and strength of action, in expression ca pabili- ites, in durability, in beauty, is conceded to the #eintzman Play The Difevent Player-Piano" The tone, action, and beauty gf design. i that of the famous emtzman plano-- canbe id on Tat ae The Player-action is the re- pt * weatherproof * "trouble-proof." C. W: Lindsay, Ltd. in construction, in & Gn. er-Fliann is "wear-proof," and Kingston. ® pressed by the story of the Tommy coming home on a furlough, aid who, fearful with the true British spirit of undemonstrativeness of being met with tears and sobs, came unheralded and unexpectedly upon his family and found them to his great delight listen- ing to the tunes grown dear to him on the battlefield and gaining courage thereby. Tuner, Music Student's Friend. A piano gets out of tune for the same reason that the clothes line gets slack after it has! been used a few times. Let it be understood that the strings in a piano, though made of high grade steel, are subject to a tre- mendous tension which is constant. It has been estimated that the pull on the iron plate of a grand is not less than 40,000 ponds Although the ack of pia fia has advanced wonderfully What most instruments "stand in, tune" for almost incredible periods, one must remember that the influences of heat and cold on the metal cannot be guarded against. Therefore it is advisable to have the piano tuned at regular and frequent mtervals. There is another reason. The chief beauty of the piano tone depends upon the "partials" or "overtones," and these begin to fail us when the in- strument is nof in good order. It is the "partials" which give a strong tone so much more beauty and charm than a pipe-tone. Students of physics have learned. that a string when struck has a variety of vibrations. Not only does it vibrate throughout its whole length, but at the same time the separate halves of that same string are vibrating twice as fast, thus mak- ing a tone an octave higher, =~ We cannot discern that tone, but if we press the right pedal of the piano so ~ that the dampers are liftgd from all the strings, the partial Wbsation of half the string will start sympathetic vibrations in the string an octave higher. Take Middle C for example. it firmly and immediately afterwards depress (without sound) the key an octave- higher, You will hear the tone very clearly. Not only does the main string vibrate in halves, but in thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, sev- enths and eighths. The "partial" tones contained in Middle C as it is struck are the octave, the G above that, the next higher C, then E. G. B. and C. Test each one as in the case of the octave just described and the effect of sympathetic vibration can be discerned. When the right pedal is depressed in the playing of a Strike chord all these partials are sounding, although the fundamental tone is the one ringing in your ears, It follows, therefore, from these facts that an instrument out of tune is killing all this special beauty of tone color, and accustoming your ears to false and improper sounds. The tuner is the friend of the music stu- dent and he ought to be called with sufficient frequency to preserve the overtones in all their beauty. Music--Man's . Greatest Pleasure. To hear some musical people in dis- cussion and read sore of the articles in the press one would think that for- eign nations were the custodians of that was musical and that as Brit- ishers our own development was just beginning or just began since the out- break of war. Quite true we have a long road to go before music is made a part of the fife of the people of every class to the extent that it should be. But it is tao often forgotten that our own Welsh people have probably the old- est existing form of musical festival to their credit. The Troubadours of France go back to the eleventh cen- tury, and the Minnesigners of Ger many to the tw wel century, yet the Welsh Eistedd was held mn the seventh century. The meaning of the word is given as the "sitting of wise men." The bards who took art were the very most proficient. t is also said that the notice of the holding of the Eisteddfod, to be legal, Jad + to be given in adéance a year and a The close hold that music has had on the Jeople of Britain has been in. tensified as time went on. This spread to Sanda, and i in late years has made A Piano Made to Last a Lifetime. : Reasons Why The © w= NEW SCALE ad such pi progress' that there are those who hope for the approach- y when as a people we sh es with Ruskin that "music is nearest at hand, the most orderly, pe an i Te word. sure from the cradle to the to an uittmate whisper that leaves one wondering where the music ends and ones' soul begins "Listen for the rhythm. Music at its very source is based on the rhyth- | mic or periodic principle. It has pulse and is onc manifestation of the great rhythmic scheme of things which con- trols all from the solar system down to man's heart-beat. Or try to catch the spirit of the music, whether grave or gay, dreamy or martial, sweet and vague or -purposefully definite, noble or trifling. Amuse yourself letting the music suggest colors as it fleet- ingly passes as subtly as the rainbow comes- and goes. Or let pictures float through your mind in keeping with what you hear. "Music is effectively descriptive in pieces that represent nature's phe- nomena, such as the rush of water, the play of wind and wave, shimmer- ing sunlight, storms of the charm of midsummer quictude.. I cannot too much emphasize the valué of constam repetition of the same piece to famil- iarize 'the listener with its character; its meaning and its form. For this reason the talking machine and player piano are wonderful helps. "Play a minuet. Recurrences of a A will come i groups of tight or sixteen short Bars. Then will come a contrasting or answering section. After a while the mood will change for the middle section or trio which is also constructed of two phrases. Presently you will discern. an entire repetition. or recapitulation. of all the first short part and its fol- lowing contrasting section. Some- times the piece ends quite simply, like the first part, sometimes a little coda or closing part is tacked on much as 4 woman gives a bowknot a little fin- ishing pat after tying. When Dress Interferes With Music. He would be a brave man, a very brave man, who would openly assert that buttons--those decorative buttons of all colors, and all sizes and all shapes that women love to think and dream about when planning their new suits--are open to criticism. na yet those same little adornmefits sometimes cause trouble. A woman violinist in a western town once own- ed a valuable old fiddle, and she loved to play it. The tones of no other violin contained as much real person- ally satisfying music for her as her own instrument. But one evening the violin made a queer rattling noise when she- played, Evidently something radically wrong had happened to it, .and the owner failed to discover any cause, so she despatched the violin by express to a repafrer several hundred miles away. The repairer could find nothing wrong, and after reassuring himself that the fiddle was quite in order, sent it back with a letter asking if it were possible that the rattling might be. caused by thé violin touching some ornament on the lady's dress when she played. This proved ta be the solutiem: "+A-rewwof sweet little metal buttons on her dress were in such ad position as to touch the violin lightly when she played. If as a Japanese proverb says, "Mu- * i sic has the jpower of making heaven descend to earth," even the dainty buttons of a woman's costume must not be allowed to interfere. A PURCHASING BOARD Committee on War Supplies to Act For Departments. Ottawa, Oct. 25--Sir Edward Kemp who has been appointed Minister of the Overseas military forces, will on his departure for his new post in England relinquish his place on the War Purchasing Commission, A new chairman will be named to succeed him, and in view of the en ement of the scope of the commissioh's du- ties to make purchases upon requisi- tions from other departments, it is understood two additional members will be appointed making the num- ber of commissioners five. Twenty Years Ago. The Pike County (Ill.) Republican is responsible for this scintillating tabulation of things that were only "twenty years ago": Ladies wore bustles. Operations were rare. Nobody swatted the fly. Nobody had seen a silo. Nobody had appendicitis. Nobody wore white shoes. Nobody sprayed orchards. Cream was § cents a pint, Young men had "livery bills." Cantaloupes were muskmelons. You never heard of a "tin Lizzie." Milk shake was a favorite drink. Nobody cared for the price of gasoline. Farmers came to town for their Ji mail, The hired girl week. The butcher "threw in" a chunk of liver. Folks said pneumatic tires were a joke. There were no sane Fourths, nor electric meters. Strawstacks were burned instead of baled. Jules Verne was the only convert to the submarine. You stuck tubes in your ears to hear a phonograph, and it cost a dime. drew one-fifty a back as 1897. Does the world move? EE TT The Telgmann School of Music. Piano, violin and other stringed instruments; Elocution and Dra- matic Art. Fall pupils may begin at any date. Terms on ap- plication. 216 Frontenac Street. | Phone 1610. = = = 5 = El ot 8 i = 2 I i : Cuts Down Fuel Bills The "Pandora" requires less fuel than other ranges because the McClary Flue System directs the heat Twice Around the oven and stops the usual wastage. Send . for illustrated des- criptive booklet. We mail it free. "PANDORA RANGE [ROTO a3ory REAL WINNIPEG LONDON M<Clarys HAMILTON CALGARY OEASKATOON "EDMONTON For Sale by J. B. 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