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...Radiano". Inventors Fred W. Roehm and Frank W. Adsit of Minneapolis announced the perfection of a device to "revolutionize" the piano business, hard hit lately by radio and phonograph competition. The device was the "radiano", attachable to the sounding board of any piano, and with modifications to violins, banjos, mandolins, to replace the microphone of a radio receiving set. Connected through the "radiano" with a radio's amplifier circuit, the piano or stringed instrument's sounding board would act, it was claimed, as a loud speaker, reproducing broadcasted piano tones with a clarity unattained hitherto; reproducing also...
...addition to the shoes, shirts, suits, and squash racquets donated, there were two desks, a phonograph and a bridge table; Saturday Evening Posts without number, a few score Vanity Fairs, and a landslide of text books completed the collection...
...quite impossible for even a passably busy man or woman to listen to records in phonograph stores, and I know of no place where these records are reviewed save in the booklets of the publishers themselves. There are many very beautiful recordings being made with entire symphonies under the new processes of electrical recording, and some of the work is so fine, that I believe it would be a distinct help to your readers to review the better class of new records...
...Francisco, Conductor Alfred Hertz led the first program of the San Francisco Symphony, chose Schumann's "First Symphony," Sibelius' "Swan of Tuonela" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome" for his first offerings. San Franciscans were well pleased, applauded especially the "Pines of Rome," new there. A phonograph record, that of a nightingale's song, was introduced for the first time, so far as is known, in a symphony orchestra...
...Gold Coast Orchestra, of the Specialty branch of the Instrumental organization, headed this year by C. E. Henderson '28, will have phonograph records made of some of its dance interpretations. Radio broadcasting will be another feature of its work this year. The Gold Coast players will furnish dance music, ranging from the classical to the barbaric, at all the scheduled concerts this season, and will play at the end of each concert for the benefit of those who wish to dance...