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| − | Les Schultz, Temora, NSW provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive. | + | Les Schultz, Temora, NSW provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive, as described by [[John Meredith]]. |
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| + | "Les Schultz of Temora is a descendant of one of the original German settlers in that district, in fact a great-grandson ... Les had on loan a lovely old rosewood 'Mezon Grand Organ' accordion, one of the excellent instruments made in Saxony up to about the mid-twenties ... He learnt many tunes from his father ... Great-grandfather Schultz was from Bavaria and possibly this accounted for most of Les's tunes being either waltzes or schottisches." | ||
| + | -- (adapted from) J Meredith, R Covell, P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p249. | ||
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Revision as of 11:35, 4 March 2025
Les Schultz, Temora, NSW provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive, as described by John Meredith.
"Les Schultz of Temora is a descendant of one of the original German settlers in that district, in fact a great-grandson ... Les had on loan a lovely old rosewood 'Mezon Grand Organ' accordion, one of the excellent instruments made in Saxony up to about the mid-twenties ... He learnt many tunes from his father ... Great-grandfather Schultz was from Bavaria and possibly this accounted for most of Les's tunes being either waltzes or schottisches." -- (adapted from) J Meredith, R Covell, P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p249.
