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Give Group Piano Lessons
Over the Air Waves
Popularity of new music teaching
methods has led to a new experiment
in use of radio to give lessons. A course
of lessons, without cost to the people
taking them, is now being offered by
the University of Michigan Extension
Service, according to Waldo Abbot,
director of broadcasting.
The pioneer project in group musical
instruction via the airways is broadcast
each Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. over the
University's station WUOM-FM, Ann
Arbor, Mich.
The lessons are conducted by James
L. Buckborough, head of instrumental
music for the Highland Park Board of
Education and state chairman of the
class piano program for Michigan. The
plan for teaching piano by radio was
worked out with the assistance of Dean
Earl V. Moore of the University of
Michigan School of Music and members
of the piano department of the School.
Abbot said more than 300 persons
enrolled for the lessons, following the
introductory program. Based on the
large number of enthusiastically favor-
able replies received to a questionaire
mailed out in advance of the series, he
said he expects many additional enroll-
ments as the series is continued.
Purpose of the course, he said, is to
give adults sufficient training so that
they can play for relaxation and rec-
reation. "We hope many of the radio
students will become interested enough
to supplement the instruction we are
offering with more formal instruction
later," he said.
It is not even necessary to have a
piano in order to follow the radio les-
sons, Abbot explained. A practice key-
board made of cardboard is sent to all
who register, as are the music books
needed for the course. There is no reg-
istration fee.
'
Practice keyboards and music books
are being supplied without expense to
the University by a Detroit retailer,
Grinnell Bros., who are cooperating in
the piano-by-radio instruction program.
12 Wurlitzer Pianos
for School for Blind
The Claude P. Street Piano Co.,
Nashville, Tenn., recently announced
the sale of twelve Wurlitzer Pianos,
Model 901, to the Tennessee School for
the Blind. This is a new three million
dollar school for the blind, located on
the outskirts of Nashville.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW. NOVEMBER, 1951
MRS. CARRIE BRETZFELDER
JOHN ALLEN
• Mrs. Carrie Bretzfelder, widow of the
late A. L. Bretzfelder, formerly pres-
ident of Krakauer Bros., New York,
passed away on November 12th.
She is survived by Herbert Selig, a
brother. Maurice Bretzfelder, the pres-
ent president of Krakauer Bros., is her
nephew.
Services were held at the Riverside
Chapel, 76th St. .and Amsterdam Ave.,
New York, on Wednesday, Nov. 14th,
and interment was private.
STOPS
HAUGHTO1S
• John Allen Haughton, senior editor
of "Musical America" magazine, passed
away on Sunday, November 11th, in
University Hospital, New York, at the
age of 71. He had been connected with
"Musical America" since 1918, with the
exception of a year when he was with
the Army in Europe.
He is survived by a sister, Maude
Haughton. and a brother, Hugh Haugh-
ton, both of Baltimore, and a brother,
Frank Haughton of Schenectady, N. Y.
Funeral services were in Baltimore.
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