Complaints Aboutdaventry

Radio Times, September 4th, COMPLAINTS1925. ABOUTDAVENTRY. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE B.B.C ————= a a Vol.8. No,-102. lord:ae3OLa:ait aaN eMewes w e p apaper. p e r . l EVERY FRIDAY. __TwoPence. OFFICIAL The Making of MilitaryBBands. PROGRAMMES By Lieut: H. E. ADKINS, Mus. Bac., Aeon L.R.A.M. for the week commencing [Few people are better qualified to k of SUNDAY, September 6th. Guards’ paz military bands than Mr. Adlins, whe is Director ground to St of Music at Koeller Hall, the Military School Music. A programme of mesic ot Kneller James's Palace, MAIN STATIONS, Hall will be broadcast from Daventry on Tuesday, whilst the Kings LONDON, CARDIFF, ABERDEEN, GLAS- September 8th.| Guard was GOW, BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER, NEGROES in the band of the mounted. These BOURNEMOUTH, NEWCASTLE, Coldstream Guards! lt Sounds musicians were BELFAST. ridiculous, yet up to the time of the not soldiers, but Crimean War it was the general practice were hired by the HIGH-POWER STATION. to have these coloured players in the month : and ona (Daventry.) band. They did not play syncopated certain occasion, RELAY STATIONS. music, either, bat the good, oald- fashioned when water SHEFFIELD, PLYMOUTH, EDINBURGH, military tunes. Kegiments vied with sports were held one another ta dress them in the most on the Thames, LIVERPOOL, LEEDS—BRADFORD, the colonel of the HULL, NOTTINGHAM, STOKE-ON- magnificent manner, and they appeared Licwt, H, E. ACAI, TRENT, DUNDEE, SWANSEA, with feathered headgear, loose coats, and regiment wanted coloured sashes. They played the ** clash- them to play and instructed them accord- pans,’ or cymbals, as they were then ingly. But thecivilian musicians considered SPECIAL CONTENTS. called, and the old “ Jmglmg Johnnies,” this course to be undignified and outside THE REASON WHY OF CALL SIGNS, which consisted of a pole supporting a them proper duties, They refused to play, By P. P. Eckersley. number of sleigh belis, which were shaken and as a result of this rupture, the then by the player. Duke of York, Colonel-in-Chief of the REPUTATIONS BY RADIO. Coldstream Guards, obtained a large By Sydney A. Moseley. * it # 4 The beginnings of military bands go number of musicians foe Tae SOME FAMOUS SCHOOL SONGS, back as far as the time of Charles IL, * By A. B. Couper. Military bands ‘had ‘already developed who 2uthorized twelve “ hantbos’”’ im to a comparatively highpitch of excellence various companies of Foot Guards in in Germany, and the new Coldstream THE LURE OF LONDON'S RIVER, London, It is interesting to note that By H. M. Tomlinson. band consisted of twenty-four musicians, these men were given. a fictitious name, the instruments including: clarinets, horns, I and were borne on the strength of other OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS. oboes, bassoons, trumpets, trombones, companies of the regiments then quartered serpents, tambourines, and " Jingling PEOPLE YOU WILL HEAR THIS WEEK. in the country. By ths questionable Johnnies.” These latter were shaken hy device the musicians obtained ‘higher pay. = three coloured performers. This: imnova- IMPORTANT TO READERS. 2 # +. = tion and its subsequent development led Tike addiress of ‘The Radio Times "is §-11, Southampten After a hundred years- had passed, thie to the foundation of our present military Stree, Strand, Londen, W.C.2. bands of the three Regiments of Guards” band system. ee a st ten Sete: Bineeatiig Comin, 1d. consisted of no more than eight per- # = J + io 2, Seroy Hall, Strand, London, WH fonmers—two clarinets, two obocs, two Getieden OF ppg to “The heagr Other Regiments of the Line were now 1 webve Minntha tga iy horns, and two bassoons. They did very allowed to form bands, but the whole oi ARDS Tele Mvoths(Brith), Ls, Ed), litte more than play from the Horse ; (Continged overfea! in column 3.) a4 RADIO TIMES —— [SErresmen Sra, lec, = — Reputations By Radio. The Making of Military Bands {Continged fram the previous page.) the expense waa shared by the offioers of the Impressions of Orators. By Sydney A. Moseley. individual regiments. Wealthy regiments engaged hichly trained musicians, and very EPUTATIONS are made amd marred by have Leen more inspiring to the vast. unseen naturally a certain rivalry grew up between 4 public speeches. “Sole perch” audience of wireless listeners than to. the various regiments. Each trie] to make its Hamilton may or may not have justified the audiences whe were fortunate enough to he band the best and unique, The 2nd Life history he made by a solitary effort. Or to present, I found myself moved to applause on Guards, for example, boasted in 1831 that they come down to more reeent times, Mr. Duff several occasions when there was 10 response from had “the famons Russian chromatic trombone Gordon tway have really carned the pucans of those present. And cice versa, A more moving lane thie cmily ord il Funw lave : and tlle praises which heralded his maiden speech in occasion than the Pilerims dinner given to Elthorne, Middlesex, Militia spoké with price of Parliament. How are we to tell ¥ In the past Mir, Houghton, the American Ambassador, bina their band of “ Pandean Reeds.” it was wsuMdly through the written word, To- not been recently had, Coming at a vital * = + + day. however, Press-made reputations cive way moment in European aflairs. one certainly It Wha &Y cers that the inetrinnentatian of to radio rept ations which, besides heing the expected speeches of a very high order, The military band: would have to bo siandantined invincible test, are the more reliable, Ole time Amhassador's apes hi. as at proved, Was epoch. and the pitch of the various bands brought to re pula tions, therefor. are in the ms Hintze. prot. ikine fd owas peprielced in the worlds rome Gommon basis. Withowt thik, no momsed| Revised Ideas. Press, verkatin. playing was possible ancl meeh PCO veMenee How, then, have many prominerit reputations Light Amid Much Shade. wae caused, For the creconstriction of the fared ? 1 confess that 1 myself have had to Mr. Honghton, however, made mo attempt, military band aystem we were mainly indebted ao it sebmed to me: te move lis audience. He rece ny itcas of hay pubic hen ane vonee nm to William Wieprecht, a German who, by the moe hearing them throuvh the rwicrophone, indulged in no flight of rhetoric and, as T thouglit way, designed the bombardon, and to whom Although, in the eyurse of ny profession. | have at the time, i pead noch better than it sounded, ered it ia given for introducing a complete family had te attend a good many public fonctions, | Ae for Mr. Aweten Chamberlain, the impression of valved instroments. Theso ore said to bave ie cave was that he did not trouble to prepare Will salmit that thor cas de ne ether means of included slide bass trombones, euphonium, weighing up on prominent publicists than in @ speech at all, T have heard him from the E-flat. comets, and B-fat tenor horns. public platform and have met hind privately. the secloston of one’s own study. Being present oe = a & at the funetion, ttas not sucha good test. The Mr. Chatiberlain has o natural, hesitant «nd Curiously. enough, there is still practioally a lively atmosphere, a cond dinner, aweet cham- sincere manner: of delivers nr, no doubb, oa eemi-tone difference in piteh between muictic im page and an cnygeging vompanion de net take Foreign Secretary, he had to go very warily on the service and the best part of mieie played for unbiased judgment, And certainiy this what waa diplorond fe ne well aesocial ocean. elaewhere, both in Englund aod abroad, Thie delightfial newspaper reports the next morning Nevertheless, his spoeth mist have come we o unfortunate atate af nffairs, which does mint dixappointment to his multitude of unknown arc, Inore often than tot, tuo kine sind sone permit inetromental co-operation, was, perhape, times (oo partisan ! admirers, brought about by Koeller Hall fixing the pitel True, a pood speaker nee! met necossarily be Lord Birkenhead s light and gay speeohes in aas, as that naed ot the aveient Phill. good at anything else, yet the fact remains that are amusing when heard through the ether. mone Coneerts, the world judees and forme ifs iovpressicia of Indeed, hie speeches are sometimes in the Twenty-seven years later, the Plotharmonir nature of a rehef—the hight amid much shade. ite public servants from their poblic witeraiees, adopted the international or continental pitch, They would prefer a speaker who can he acen, Nevertheless, rrne cx pects loftier themes aml with a view of helping to standardise the piteh xived and sumup, Foiline that, to lear dignified eloquence from a lord Chancellor. throurhont the covihzed world; Asa matter of hom Tey wireless 1k « Fuller tre aft due Bee, to Popular Through Wireless. principle, the military authorities were anxioire “feel " his personality and ooneider hic remarks For en almost perieet oration, however, one to conform with this change, but the cca undisturbed by his tricks and mannerisms, nist tom fo the Lord (hief Justice, Lord involved was too great to be esetioned tn Hewart. [am sure that among listeners, he these Limes, when Conny with puiblio farncks, The Premier's Notable Effort. mist rank high ase publi. speaker, and since ix a matter of notional intervat. As for the general tone of public spocches, very fewof hus listeners can have had the oppor- one cannot. give & wiform judgment. Meany a ib BE fa tunity ut jeezing him it Aret diaad, ene might { have heard it maid that. brass: insbriments speaker both please! aed sarprised me, others almost aay that he has achieved a popular pained and disillusioned mv.

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