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Show oo DAVID THE FIRST BAND MASTER David might well be called the first bandma-ster mentioned in history, for he was the first orchestral organizer of which we liace any record. His band numbered two hundred, four score and eight, and, ho thus led the first body of players. He no doubt possessed a knowledge of instrumentation instrumen-tation and tone color effects for he assigns to the chief musician, who fatruments. The Fourth. Psalm, "Hear me when I call, O God of my rlghteouness," he directs to be played by his chief musician, who was a player of the harp and the sackbut. Psalm fifth. "Give ear to ray words, O Lord," he asslfns to the chlof musician, who was the solo flutist of his band. Psalm sixth, "O Lord, rubuke me not in thine anger," the chief musician or soloist on the string instrument, who had a , virtuoso's regard for expression, is t called upon to perform, and so on through the Psalm. John P. Souse, j |