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Show - BSSSSSBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSa 4 I , - --- ... - , .,.. , , ... - - RECORDING THE INDIAN'S MUSIC Geoffery O'Hara, recently appointed ap-pointed by the Interior Department Depart-ment at Washington to record the tribal songs and music of all American Indians, began his work in New York City last week by taking his first phonographic phono-graphic records of the songs of the Blackfoot Indians who are there on a visit from Glacier National Park, Montana. Musical Musi-cal America gives these statements state-ments concerning the singing of the Indians: During the stay of the reds men in New York, Mr. O'Hara is haVing them sing into phonographs, phono-graphs, and the records will be sent on to Washintgon to be put ,v SIS Slfl in the Government archives, thereby preserving for all time 8 the muisc of the original Ameri- w I cans, who are rapidly passing to the Happy Hunting Grounds. I I "The Indians could hardly I grasp the idea at first of how' they could sing into a tin horn and thereby record their music I After the first song had been I sung, however, the reproduction I was given them in a 'few min- I utes and the magic o"the opera- I tion was bewildering to them.. I They thought it was the most I wonuderful of all the wonders B they have seen since their inva- I sion of Greater New York. Mr. I O'Hara will have them sing daily to his phonograph while I the Indinas are in New York ini 11 B |