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...disc on the M. I. T. instrument was keyed to a three-octave board, reproduced deep pipe organ notes. Unlike Leon Sergeievitch Theremin's "ether music" box (TIME, Sept. 30), Hardy & Brown's development does not slide from one note to another, slurring the intervening ones...
...winters ago there arrived in the U. S. a Russian scientist, one Leon Sergeievitch Theremin (pronounced Termin), with an invention whereby he claimed music could be made with a wave of the hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have attended his demonstrations in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But many of the curious went. They saw a slender, tense person of some 30 years take his stand unaffectedly before an instrument resembling a radio set. Then he adjusted plugs and dials on the box (by which timbre was varied...
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