Listen to episode 154 of The Adelaide Show podcast, which was published August 3 2016, to find out which story is fake. This week’s pieces cover guitars in Adelaide.
Adelaide Mandolin And Guitar Society
South Australian Register 1996
The first concert by Professor A. Davidson’s Mandolin and Guitar Society will be given in the Victoria Hall this evening, and a part of the proceeds will be devoted to Our Boys’ Institute Building Fund. In many large cities, societies of mandolin and guitar players exist, and the Adelaide Estudiantina, as the new organization is called, contains a number of good players who have been trained by Professor Davidson to present concerted music attractively. Vocal numbers will be contributed by Miss Lizzie Armstrong, the talented Melbourne soprano, Miss Jessie Galbraith, and Mr. Julian O’Sullivan, and Herr Belschner will play zither solos.
Music Teacher’s Guitar Smashed
The Register June 1929
Arising from an altercation between a music teacher and a student inside St Marks student Hall on May 25, a claim for £30 damages was heard in the Adelaide Local Court yesterday. John Dallinger alleged that Joseph Zoccoli struck him and kicked his steel guitar. Damages were assessed at £25.
5 Shilling Guitar Led To Success
Australian Women’s Weekly August 1964
An electric guitar home-made from a 5’- piece of timber, led to the formation of one of Adelaide’s top rhythm groups – The Coasters. The founder of the group, medical student Lindsay Worthley, 20, made the guitar three years ago because he could not afford a new instrument but desperately wanted to play. Last year he traded it in for £40 on a new guitar. “I didn’t know anything about making guitars or about the electric pick- ups, etc.” said Lindsay recently. “But I asked around and picked up a few tips. Then I bought a piece of faulty meranti from a timber yard and set to work shaping the guitar.” Other members of the group are Robin Retallick, 23, engineering student, of Burnside; David Ettridge, 19, business manager, of Glenelg; John Moyle, 18, clerk, of Plympton; and Stuart Fletcher, 18, school teacher, who is manager of the group.
Footnote to last story:
Lindsay Worthley went on to become a famous intensive care medical specialist. In 2010 he was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for ‘Service to medical education, particularly in the area of intensive care medicine, as a clinician, mentor and educator, and through contributions to professional associations’
David Ettridge is an Australian businessman who co-founded Pauline Hanson's One Nation in 1997 with Pauline Hanson and David Oldfield. On 20 August 2003, a jury from the District Court of Queensland convicted Hanson and Ettridge of electoral fraud and the Chief Judge sentenced both to three years without parole for fraudulently registering the One Nation Party. However, on 6 November 2003, the Queensland Court of Appeal quashed both convictions and Ettridge and Hanson were released from jail.