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‘We hope this unjust penalising of ’cellists will disappear’ - From the archive: May 1925

9 May 2025

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Not planes but trains: a century ago, cellists were up in arms about railway operators charging extra to allow instruments on board. Pedagogue Carl Fuchs reveals the result of the latest petition

DEAR SIR,—In December 1924, most of the leading ’cellists of this country, including the members of the teaching staff of the three chartered music schools and the principal orchestras, as well as soloists of repute, addressed to the railway companies a Petition for the removal of the charges made for conveying ’cellos…

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