Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-04-03
Arthur
Says
BY-BILLY ARTHUR


of fortisSimos make me a little
Stinker who'd push his grand
mother down the basement
steps.
The first mention of music
which is found in history ap-
pears in Genesis, Chapter w,
p: And his brothers name
was Jubal: he was the father
of all such as handle the harp
and the organ"
Using FlaviuS JoSephuS as
authority, we find that Jubal
was a near descendant of the
man who slew his brother and
got off free. Lamech, the faith
or of Jubal, was the great
great grandson of Cain. He had
~ children by two wives, Silla
and Ada. l don't know whether
he loved his wives one at :.
time or both at the same time.
History doesn't give us the
names of all the children, and
l doubt Lamech could rememb-
er them when the census TAX
erS came around.
Ada was the mother of Jubai,
also Of label. Jubal exercised
himself in music and invented
the pSalter Ga string inStru-
ment used by the oldHebrewS)
and the harp. II is not out Of
place here TO mention that
Jubal had half-brother NAM
ed Tubal, who has the honor
Of invcnting the art of brass
marking.
Now, all these things took
place before the flood that
Noah became interested in, and
can find no record of Noah
having taken any documents
recording these events into the
Ark with him. He had just his
wife, his sons and their wives
and the animals. plus supply
of provisions. He probably pat
them all on short rations. Sc,
the only way | can sec for such
an accurate description of the
early history of the Creation
and music to have been pre-
served was through the fore
thought of the children of Seth.
Seth was the son OF Adam.
Adam had a very large family
after he quit gardening for
fun and recreation, and was
evicted from life OF ease with
no clothes to buy. Seth was the
brightest child OF the whole
lot. and he was a good man.
His children turned out TO be
good people. They knew that
something was going to drop.
but they were not sure il was
gong to be rain. They wanted
TO be remembered by future
generations, so they built two
towers. one Of stone and tn
other of brick. and inscribed
their discoveries on both Of
them.
Now, let's come back to the
subject: music. About 500 B.
c. PhythaGoras, the noted
Greek philosopher and mathc-
matician, in some way connect
ed the Sun, Moon, and tn
planets Mercury, Venus, Mars.
Jupiter and Saturn with the
scale of music. We often hear
about the Music of the Spheres,
and it was Phythagoras who
commenced that fad. But the
Greeks were very choice with
their music and guarded the
style with a vigilant eye. They
preferred simple music with
out any frills and fancies. They
would distrub the dust Of their
bones in trying to turn over in
their graves if they knew about
some of today's fancy concerts
which men attend and play in
shirts with stiff waists, and
women in no waists worth
mentioning.
Music nowadays is put u
all kinds of usues. Or abuses.
The latter include the high
falutin symphony concert.
Now. a symphony is an af-
fair where the audience IS
speechlesS until the orchestra
commences to play, and then
everybody commences to talk
For 20 minutes before j:
starts, there's a lot of screech-
ing and sCraping till the must
clans get ready TO play. Then.
at a signal they play and they
play, but they don't seem TO
make much Roadway. You
really don't know what's got
into them, but you're certain il
isn't music. I've always wanted
to know why. with so much
finished music laying around
waiting to be played, they poke
a half-bakcd selection off OIL
us.
II is intended, so I'm told.
to give the musicians a chance
to express themselves. They
paid $50 each for those vio-
Inns, they say, which is jus;
another way of saying they
paid So for the fiddles.
But the follow who sends me
is Professor Airbeater, the man