B.B.C. AND THE CHURCH ORGAN
Sta,—In his contribution to your last issue, " The Ear of Britain," Mr. Philip Frank states that the B.B.C. occupies 8 per cent. of musical time with organ music, "mainly the theatre organ with its sort of swirling rowdiness."
May I raise a note of protest against the constant use of the theatre or cinema organ on the wireless? Its wheezy, rowdy tones must be having a detrimental effect upon the musical education and taste of the public, and I am sure that if some of the performers were forced to hear their produc- tions in the quietude of a home they would be the first to condemn the cinema organ for broadcasting purposes.
For some years I lived within earshot of Barnet Fair, and hideous as the noise from the roundabouts was, I would prefer even that quality of " music " to the performances we now so frequently have imposed upon us over the wireless.
May I, therefore, put in a strong plea for more organ music by the B.B.C., played on the king of instruments, the church organ? The entire substitution of that instrument in place of the raucous and blurred notes of the cinema organ would have a very beneficial effect upon the musical public, and would be greatly appreciated by all lovers of true and melodious music.—Yours, &c., P. A. SHAW.
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