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...stage of the Grand Music Hall of Basel, Switzerland one day last week sat two strange contraptions. One resembled a telephone switchboard with a set of loudspeakers attached. The other looked like a small spinet but was connected to two loudspeakers and a lute-shaped soundbox. The gadgets were known as the "Mixturtrautonium" and the "Ondes Martenot." Both produce more or less musical tones electronically, and they were to be featured soloists in a concert for the delegates to the first International Congress of Electronic Music and Musique Concr...
...talking machines, even expensive ones, his intrusion was unavoidable. Of course it was not really static-the blaring, nasal voice they heard through the playing of a record-but a sound composed of the hum of the operating motor and the vibrations of the mica diaphragm of the soundbox. Driven to desperate shifts by radio competition, the Victor Talking Machine Co. last year set about eliminating this privy hobgoblin. Last week the product of their researches-the Orthophone-was demonstrated. A duralumin diaphragm is substituted for the mica one; the motor is perfectly soundless; its range is five...
...Manhattan, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. demonstrated a "panatrope" and "panchords," announced that both would soon be marketed. The panatrope is a new music-making machine constructed on the principle of radio-telephotography, using vacuum tubes and a photo-electric cell to replace the horn and soundbox of the phonograph. Where the phonograph caught and reproduced, at best, only 50% of the frequencies (sound waves) given forth by an artist or orchestra, it is claimed the panatrope catches and reproduces 90%, eliminating extraneous noises of machinery. The panchord is a film-record, having sound waves fixed upon it photoelectrically, capable...
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