Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...translating into line drawing the equivalent of a response to music. . . . The artistic success must be left to the critical judgment of the musician, the artist and the interested audience." Amused at her cover's reception, Mrs. Moody said that she had been given a set of phonograph records from Mârouf, had played them in her spare time and jotted down "impressions." Business Manager Wilfred Davis of the Opera selected the final designs...
Ludwig II would have given his right ear to have invented the ingenious piano which Bechstein put on the market last week. Combination piano, spinet, harmonium, phonograph and radio receiver, it is no madman's dream, no impractical curiosity, but a precise, scientific musical instrument, substituting electrical apparatus for the standard piano sounding-board. The electrical engineering is the work of Walther Nernst, German physicist: electrical equipment by Siemens & Halske A. G.; pianobuilding by C. Bechstein. "Claviphone" is one of the names suggested for it. Principle is. simply, that microphones pick up the vibrations, fundamental tones and overtones...
...right-hand side of the piano, in a space left empty by shortening the strings, is an amplifier. To it is attached a loudspeaker. These may also be used for phonograph or radio reception (with pick-up or aerial). A dial by the keyboard regulates the volume of sound in eleven degrees of loudness. If the loudspeaker is turned off, the "Claviphone" tinkles like a spinet. Turned on full force, it will fill a large hall. Once you have set the dial for a certain volume, you may vary the volume further and more finely by pressing the left pedal...
Anita, 22-year-old daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, swam the length of the Bosporus (18 mi.) in five hours, while her father fed her chocolate, cheered her with phonograph music from a small boat...
Died. Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse (Al G. Barnes), 68, circusman, founder and longtime owner of Barnes's Circus; after a lingering illness; in Indio, Calif. He started his show in 1895 with a pony, a phonograph, a stereopticon. A colorful participant at every performance, he would lead the opening parade seated on the head of a mammoth elephant. Two years ago he sold his interests to Circusman John Ringling...