A set of Wolf's Music Time Blocks (above and below) which are on display on the 20th century wall at Toihu Otago Settlers Museum. Back in England, Sidney studied music at the Royal Academy and began a career as a conductor and music teacher. This did not quell the young man's wanderlust and, in 1880, he left England for New Zealand. In Dunedin, Sidney Wolf became the driving force behind the Dunedin choral and operatic societies. Known as Wolf's Music Time Blocks, the device used different-sized blocks to represent the length of musical notes and rests, avoiding the need to remember complicated terms such as semibreve and so on.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 31, 2019 14:26 UTC