14 MAY 1954, Page 16

TOWER MUSIC

SIR,—In Our Sussex Parish, written by Thomas Geering, of Hailsham, in 1844, there is an amusing reference to the ' Tower Music' of his youth (he was born in 1814):

"On a summer evening our band treated the lower world with its strains

from the top of the church tower." At this time the singing inside the church was accompanied by a French horn, clarinet and bassoon.—Yours faithfully, STANLEY GODMAN Pipe Passage, Lewes, Sussex