(adapted from “Where the Beech Tree Grows”, by Harry Throssel, Binna Burra Lodge Limited, 1984) Tucked away in a wonderful book entitled ‘Where the Beech Tree Grows: The Story of Binna Burra’, by Harry Throssel, is a chapter on a real German-Australian character, ‘Old Bill’. He became the quintessential Australian […]
Author: Mark Schuster
THE RINGING STRINGS OF THE BURNETT: Lost German Zither Traditions of the Queensland Bush
THE RINGING STRINGS OF THE BURNETT: Lost German Zither Traditions of the Queensland Bush Mark Schuster (St Ives, NSW) Early photographs (1919 on the left and 1933 on the right) of Baffle Creek ‘zitherverein’ or zither band. For nearly three decades from the early 1980s until after the new millennium […]
