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take an active part in the introduction of orchestral 

 music into Church festival services. This was a subject 

 in which he took great interest, and we played together 

 in a Gregorian Festival in St. Paul's Cathedral, at 

 Harvest Festival Services at St. Stephen's, Lewishara, 

 St. Philip's, Battersea, and the pretty little parish 

 church of Darenth, Kent. Just at the time, however, 

 at which, under the tuition of the late A. J. Phasey, 

 he was becoming master of his instrument, he received 

 the injury to his right hand already described. And 

 though he several times subsequently spoke of resuming 

 his practice, and did occasionally attempt to do so, he 

 never really took up the euphonium again. 



Of instrumental music, however, whether himself 

 performing or not, he was always very fond, and, when 

 we lived at Norwood, used regularly to attend the daily 

 performances of the famous orchestral band at the 

 Crystal Palace, under the leadership of Mr. August 

 Manns. With his usual happy knack, too, of 

 succeeding where anyone else would certainly have 

 failed, he managed to obtain an order admitting him to 

 the private rehearsals for the Saturday Concerts ; for on 

 Saturday afternoons he was generally engaged, and so 

 could not attend the concerts themselves. But his 

 strong point, as far as music was concerned, lay in the 

 organisation and conducting of choral music. Besides 

 undertaking the precentorship of the seven great 

 festivals which have already been described, he trained 

 and managed the parish choir of Erith, Kent, during a 

 period of several years, and also conducted an amateur 

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