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Invention of a new electric phonograph pick-up that is from 5 to 15 times lighter than the types now in use has been made by two men working in the Cruft Laboratory here. The inventors are Frank V. Hunt, assistant professor of Physics and Communicating Engineering, and J. A. Pierce...
...short paper on "Neurohumors as Activators of the Nervous System." "Vibrations in Machinery" is the subject of a speech by Jacob D. Den Hartog, assistant professor of Applied Mechanics, while Henry C. Stetson, research associate in Paleontology, will talk on "The Geology of Submarine Canyons." "High Fidelity Sound from Phonograph Records" will be discussed by Frederick V. Hunt, assistant professor of Physics and Communication Engineering...
...parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court musicians (even by U. S. Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes of this high mortality rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate...
Fighting a losing battle against time, and using the same weapon as the phonograph salesmen, anthropologists and folk-locists the world over are doing what they can to salvage the remnants of primitive music. Patient, ill-paid scholars sweat through the tropics holding microphones, and even old-fashioned dictaphones, to the mouths of aging tribesmen, hoping to catch and preserve melodies that are on the point of death. Collections of their records are kept in museums. Now & then a few are put on sale...
...been released, but some of the most exciting portions of the sound track have been re-recorded on discs, last week were put on sale.* Endorsed by Anthropologist George Herzog of Columbia University, these discs constitute the best authentic anthology of African Negro music to be found on commercial phonograph records. Much of this music shows rhythmic resemblances to jazz, includes drums, flutes, xylophones and chanting by long-headed Congo Negroes, by the Mambuti Pygmies, and by the Watusi. a race of 7-ft. African giants living as feudal chiefs in what was formerly German Tanganyika. The Pygmies sing repetitious...