The Garrison Band.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 611, 23 May 1891, Page 3

The Garrison Band.

A FEW WORDS OF RECOGNITION.

The plucky way in which Bandmaster Morrison and those assisting him have applied themselves to the work of making the Garrison Band an efficient one, well entitles them to the high place that the Band occupies in popular fat or. Those who have any idea of the patience and perseverance that have been required in this matter will readily extend the hand of congratulation to the men on the compliment which they received the other evening from Major Wood. From various causes the Band was some months ago in a very low and dispirited state; many of the old and trained players with whom music had ever been a hobby (if such an expression may be permitted) had drifted from the ranks, and their place was indifferently filled by raw recruits, who were willing enough to learn, but bad yet to undergo that species of torture which makes many ardent lovers of music confess that they are not musicians. There was the learning or “ breaking-in ” process to go through, and this made the work very tedious. Those difficulties have now been fairly got over, and the learners are blossoming into worthy members of the Band, all helping to enable the Baud to take that rank which Major Wood gave it when he said that it could well compare with similar institutions in Napier and other large towns. We feel sure that the people of Gisborne will be highly pleased to hear of such a compliment paid by one whose judgment would not bef warped by any sympathetic leaning towards those who constitute the Band.