SOL-FA, SO GOOD

When I entered the Junior section of school in 1931 our weekly music lessons were all taken using Tonic sol-fa (February). Miss Goldfinch, our teacher, used no instrument – only a tuning fork. We learned many songs from The National

Song Book, including ‘Drink to me only’ and ‘Here’s a health unto His Majesty’. We learned the hand signs and could sing to ‘la la’ following these. In the top infants’ class we learned sight reading and could be called out to sing from a sight-reading book. J Gordon, Hull