26 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 11

Gramophone Notes

• HIS MASTER'S VOICE.

The colloquial French Course which this Company recently issued upon fifteen double-sided records, has preyed to be not so much a speculation as an answer to a definite demand. The Education Officers of the R.A.F. stations, for example, have been supplied with special gramophone courses in French, "German, Italian and Spanish (recorded by the Linguaphone Institute). Twelve stations offer this instruction as part of the free course of study open to any member of the Air Force. This, I consider, is a much more profitable application of gramo- phone education than the series of records of " Declamatory Art Demonstrating the Logical Rhetorical Dissection of Speech," which were issued by another company a few months ago. * * *