The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-18

Everybody who knows anything about musical instruments knows that an English Horn is big brother to an Oboe and that the Basson is the i bass of the Oboe family.
 At least this is what MT Herbert c. Meade, instructor of bands in the high schools of Birmingham told me the other day when 1 was enjoying delightful talk with him about the splendid band of the Central High school and it's successful appearance recently at the entertainment which Miss l.eta Kitts, instructor of music in the public schools presented.
 But that didn't answer the ques- ton l had propounded.
 What is a "Coranglais"?
 That's different" said Mir. Meade and then he went over in hIs mind all the curious sounding instruments like q 'Eu phonium," ", "Piecolo," Sax ophone" and "&ylophone" and still after searching the genealogical family trees of every single blessed one of them, he couldn't find any thing hanging on their aristocrattc branches like a "Coranglais.
 Where did you ever hear of it." Mr Meade asked curious1y.
 "Lieutenant John Philip Sousa. U. S. N. k. F.. is responsible for it." | promptly answered. and so l know it's bound to be authentic, so let's find out it's pedigree and ali about it's ancestral history"
 Then Mir. Meade-who knows pret- ty nearly every thing there is to know about musical instruments especially band instruments, because he's been the instructor of bands for [ tba mat gaUera1 GRVera large industrial centers. lately at the Samson Tractor companys plant in Janesville. Wisconsin, where he had splendid band of fifty-five pieces, began to trace the lineage of this long waisted. full chested. instru- ment, the "Coranglais," and found tucked away in the recesses of his memory the fact that an English horn has first cousin or some thing, which spells it's name "eoring- lese"
 ton that I can find to any of the family of musical instruments usual " used in a band"
 However" said Mir. Meade, 'in a band as large as Sousa's Band, which Is the largest in the world. number ing nearly one hundred musicians, many unusual instruments of course are employed"
 The ideal band for ordinary use includes about fifty five performers" i" MT Meade continued. "and while We have at present in the Central High school band, forty pieces, it will only be a short time before we will in crease the number to at least fifty five or sixty
 T find a great deal of talent in Birmingham musically," Mr. Meade declared. and l am greatly pleased over tAe prospects of9fine band work in the high schools here. It Is my first experience in band work in schools as heretofore all my work has been with industrial bands. No large corporation is considered quite complete without it's band, and it is tremendous influence for good in any industrial center.1
 Tn schools I find that musical work is two -fold-for it not only de- velops the artistic sense of the pupil. but it keeps him out of mischief a boy who is interested in music, stays off of the streets and out of bad com pany and even though he never means to make music a profession, parents should realize the value of their sons as we'll as their daughters having a musical education, so that they .may in later years enjoy good music, con certs. the opera and oratorio.
 The musical department of the
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