The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-15
Can We Really
Listen to Music

said Miss PulllVer, the interesting
lady who played Victrolia records
last week for Juniors, in a talk to
the Junior Editor the other day.
"They listened and heard pretty
sounds, and then they took a shell
and put a string across and made
music with that, and that was the
very first harp.
IAN long ago, just as Juniors do
today, the boys made whistles out
of the maple seeds in the spring
time, and that was the beginning of
the instruments that today we call
woodwinds, as the flute and the
clarinet"
So music isn't really one bit new.
1t is as old as the world. For Ma
ture sang lullabies when the earth
was young. We are the ones who
are learning about music, how to
make it and how to understand it.
Victrolas Make Listeners
To Historically listen, is won
derful thing, for then we hear many
sounds that we never thought
lived before, but they have lived
all the time, only our poor ears are
dull and stupid.
Mine out of ten people listen to
one who plays" said Miss Pulliver.
How much fore joy they would
have then if they could learn to
listen! That is what we want to
teach the children, and that, we
think, is what the Victrola is SO
well fitted to do, if it is used right"
There wasn't a Victrola in any
school seven years ago, and just in
that little time, the talking machine
has proved such valuable thing,
that now every town of over 500
people has Victrolas in its schools"
They can be much more useful in
the schools now than they have
been, before as she herself has
shown us in the schools. For we
can really study with them. We
can learn to listen SO that Junior
of almost any size will know when
flute plays, or harp, or a violin
or trombone, or any instrument
that plays without having to read it
on the record.
MANY schools where I have
gone," she said, "the children can
not tell the difference between a
flute or a harp and even between a
flute and drum"
But we guess that all the grown
ups don't know either, for in Indi-
annapolis the other day man went
into the Victrola store and said he
wanted to hear some plates played,
meaning records" all the time.
Scientific Men Produce Pictures.
Music shows the feeling of a
people," Miss Pulliver continued,
land by listening we can imagine
what certain people and nations
were like by hearing their music,
and seeing the different kinds of in
struments they played. For in
stance, the music of New England
at the time when the Puritans
first came to America is all very
slow and solemn, which is just
what we would expect Of those
SleIu uedIleu, anu SeIlOuS luluueu
Pilgrims.
We have all seen pictures of the
different musical instruments
which are more or less true pic
lures of the instruments, but we
are glad to welcome something new
and better. The Victrola company
has been busy for some time, max
ing correct pictures of the differ
ent instruments that can be used in
the class room, and do you know
how long it took them to make
these pictures? Three long years!
Men who were color experts, went
to work very scientifically and
planned these pictures, and sent
them back again and again until
they suited the taste of these ex-
perts.
Government Chose Sound Expert.
And by the way" Miss Pulliver
went on, and since she is especially
interested in Victrolas las we are
too) she was proud to it, you
know we have sound experts too,
who spend all their time delving
(Which means Digging into the
mysteries of sound. For of course