Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-02-07

Mr.. c. has the cnviable reputa-
ton of being one of the best con-
cert pisnists and teachers in the
east. After a strenuous season of
musical endeavor, he left town to
spend a summer of leisure in his
favorite mountain haunts. Mrs. c.,
who accompanied him, found the
services OF laundress needed and
secured the indispensable adjunct to
comfort in a nearby village. II
hear, +" said the somewhat musical
ly inclined washerwoman, that
your husband is a music teacher,
and as l would like, my daughter to
learn to play, it might be safe to
trust her education to him."
Probably suggested the pian-
lists wife, smilingly.
1T would be fine idea," con-
tinuued the Queen of the Studs,
for me to do your washing, and
have your husband teach my daugh-
ter in exchange. -
DO the washing in exchange for
lessons, F" exclaimed Mrs. c. in hor-
ror, ''when the relative values are
so differentl''
But said the persistent laun-
dress, 81 am willing to allow you
the benefit of the difference -
Mrs. c. saw that her efforts to
evade further conversation on the
subject were futile, and in an eff
fort to explain, remarked, ''You get
only seventy-five cents for your
laundry work, whereas my hus-
band, for his teaching, gets six
dollars an hour, and
six dollars Six dollars an
hour screamed the washerwoman
in amazement, ''why woman, | can
get real professor over in town
for twenty-five cents. '-Ex.
During the early career of Emma
Nevada, one evening in concert,
she for few moments seemed to
have forgotten either the words or
melody. The flutist of the orches-
ira, realizing the situation, i'm
proviscd brief interlude, at the
conclusion of which she had re-
gained her composer and resumed
her part, very few of the audience
being aware of her discontinue.
But amid the storm of the applause
that followed her performance she
pluCkcd a beautiful rose from a
boquet presented to her, and passed
it TO the flutist as an acknowledge
ment of his timely assistance. -Ex.
fit
One of the most interesting of all
wind instruments is the saxophonc.
1t is really distinguished from the
clarinet only by the shape of the
sound tube, which is not cylindrical
as in the clarinet, but conical as in
the oboe; it is PLAYED like the clari-
net, by means of single beating
reed. But the altered shape of the
pore causes the note in OVERLOOKING
to go, not into the twelfth, but into
the octave, by which means the
lingering becomes as simple as in
the oboe. And, in fact, the saxo-
phones have the same notation
lingering and compass as the oboe,
the notation, in the treble clef be-
ing from the B (below the first
ledger line, below the staff to F,
the staff. The inventor A. Sax,
1S4O), however, built the instru-
ment in six sizes, viz: high sopra-
no, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone
and bass; besides which each kind
was made in two-fold pitch, one
I'm c, FL for use in symphonies,
the other Tin B. flat, E. flat for
military band. At the present time
those in B. and E. flat are mostly
in use, as the instruments have not
been generally adopted for use in
symphony orchcstras. Elk.
A curious custom connected with
the Scrvian army is the manner
in which most of the regiments
carry the big drum. 1t is not, as
in mots countries, slung in front
of the man who plays it, but is
placed upon a small, two-wheelec
cart drawn by large dog, which
has been so trained that it keeps its
place even through the longesi
marches. The drummer takes uI
a position behind the cart and per.
forms on the instrument as il
moves.
The announcement that Tschai.
kovsky's Overture 1872" was re
Gently performed at the Alexandr;
Palace by the band of the Cold
stream Guards, reinforced by bombs
a1.c4-:-.11.. d.ecLoroed h,r the cor,