Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — Noisy Music. [ARTICLE]

Noisy Music.

Shakspeare asserted that no man should be trusted who “is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds.” His dictum would make Turks and Chinese objects of suspicion, for they delight in the clashing rather than in the harmony of sounds. A Turkish ambassador at the Court of St. James once attended a concert. On being asked which piece he preferred, he answered, “The first one.” He meant the, tuning of the instruments. According to an anecdote told by Mr. S. C. Hall, Scotch Highlanders share in the musical tastes of the Turk. “I once heard,” said Mr. Hall, “a Scotch Higlilandman declare that the greatest enjoyment he ever had in his life was one night when sheltered from a storm in a bothie twenty feet square. There were eight pipers shut up with him, and, as each ineisted on playing his own*pibroch„ all of them played together. “ ‘ Oigli! ’ ejaculated the Highlander, ‘ tat was music ! r ”