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Many inventors have experimented with a typewriter for transcribing music, but hitherto the results have been small. But now comes the report that a London musician, Signor Fortoni, has devised a typewriter which copies a sheet of music complete with all the signs. It appears that the new machine is a complicated affair, and that its cost of manufacture is a formidable affair. If the device should prove to be commercially practicable, it will be a great aid to musicians, since the labor of writing out large scores is a heavy burden upon composers. Of course, it may be that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: London | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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