Word: roehm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...