Word: phonographers
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...himself a Free Thinker. A sardonic writer once pictured Edison at the Gates of Heaven. Said the Scientist to St. Peter: "I gave the world . . . good light, cheap light. Is it my fault they used it to ... make a cheap bazaar out of every street? ... I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music. . . . Yet today I am afraid there is less music in the heart and mind of the common man. ... I gave them the motion picture . . . and millions of minds were . . . trivialized and anesthetized by that endless nicker...
...played with chemicals on a Michigan train, he spilled some burning phosphorus. An irate conductor gave the amateur chemist such a box on both ears that his deafness is partially ascribed to it. Thus he developed an interest in aural matters which eventually led to the telephone, dictograph, phonograph, talking cinema. Hence a slight interest in music: "I think the best music is that which has a tempo which corresponds to half of our heart-beat." For other cultural or even gustatory enjoyments he had no interest because no time. In his later years he lived principally on fruit, tapioca...
That people will listen to advertising talk sandwiched in between music or other entertainment is the theory upon which all radio advertising is based. A variant of this appeared last week when Durium Products Corp., makers of "Hit-of-the-Week" phonograph records, announced that this month they would issue, in the same envelope, a four-in. disc containing music and advertising matter. Name of this new medium is "Durium Junior." For more than two years Durium Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached...
...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...
...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...