Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most, ingenious toy is under process of construction-an instrument to simplify piano-playing for children. The inventor is Ralph Mayhew...
Mayhew now has hit upon the " Bubble Piano." This is a box with a keyboard which is placed over the piano keyboard.* You press the keys of the box, one after another, and the instrument strikes the proper keys on the piano, plays a melody. You press the first key of the attachment and it strikes a D, say, on the piano. You press the second key, and it strikes say an F sharp on the piano. The third key may strike B, the fourth a G sharp. By striking the keys on the attachment one after another...
...will play any melody. The tune can be changed by rearranging a set of pegs. The child can take a set of notes written out and match the successive notes with notes marked on pegs. These pegs he places one after another in a slot in the box. The instrument then plays the melody. The child has only to concern himself with the time, the length of the notes. From the manipulation of this toy a considerable part of the rudiments of music can be learned...
...photograph is translated into punctures of ticker tape, which, when drawn through a transmitter, causes the waves to assume a corresponding pattern. At the receiving end is a magnet, moved by the waves, which controls either a beam of light acting on a photographic plate or an ink drawing instrument. The main benefit of the process will, of course, be in quick transmission of pictures for newspaper use. By it banks can verify signatures of foreign tourists...
...telegraph instrument will be located in the dining room and will be one end of a direct connection between the reporters' stands in the Palmer Stadium and the Union. Each play will be typed on a slip of paper, which will be immediately read in the living room...