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weed, while a third bore a strong resemblance
to a man slipping on a banana peel. The most
melancholy tones produced the most erratic
forms. Those sharply sung were well defined.
A picture has not yet been taken in this way
EOPLE have been hearing a lot about of some of the popular airs, but experiments
"sound waves" since Edison invented along this line are soon to be made. It would
the phonograph, and many have spoken about be curious to see what "Sweet Marie " would
them as if they rushed through the air gather- look like. From the photographs already taken
ing volume and breaking against the walls with of sound waves it is believed that this particular
a splfsh like the waves at Coney Island. The song would resemble a botanical collection in a
average man would rot know a sound wave if railroad smash-up, while the whistling boy who
he saw one coming, but if he were told that a wakes you up early in the morning might be in-
big one was approaching over a telephone wire duced to pour forth his soul in an illustrated
he would probably rush to get out of the way as form and let it go at that.
if it threatened to engulf him.
A great line of development is opened up by
Now, howtver, the sound wave has at last this new discovery. It is claimed that written
been photographed, and people can know what music will be done away with, and that by pur-
it looks like. Each sound wave, it appears, is chasing a few pictures of snakes, seaweed, trees
made up of countless wavelets. A wave, which and banana peels you can learn the very newest
made the tail of a snake, was a strain of music thing in the musical world. From the skin of
sung into a phonograph specially arranged for an ordinary snake you can produce "middle
the purpose. It represents the voice of a Mrs. notes of great intensity," and the commonest
Hughes when singing her "middle notes with daisy will tell you how to sing soft notes " i n
great intensity."
the first space of the bass clef."
If the middle notes made the tail of a snake,
A man could thus turn a landscape into song,
it might be asked what the top or bottom notes evoking harmony even from the cows that graze
would do. This was tried, and equally remark- in the meadow, and a whole grand opera with
able results were achieved, the pictures of which the overture thrown in could be worked up out
were recently published in the Medical Record. of the potatoes and cabbages of your back gar-
One of the most peculiar of these illustrations den.
took the form of a daisy with well-defined centre
CAPT. J. HARRY ESTEY, son of Mr. Julius J.
and the leaves of the flower spreading symmet-
rically on every side. This was produced by Estey, of the Estey Organ Company, Brattleboro,
extremely low notes very softly sounded, '' some is engaged to one of Kentucky's charming
of them by A in the first space of the bass clef." daughters, Miss Chase, of Louisville. The
Sometimes geometrical forms were produced happy event will take place next June.
by the highest notes of the voice and some by
A $3,000 Hallet & Davis World's Fair piano
the lowest, but all differed. One took the form is being exhibited by Mr. A. G. Clemmer in his
of a tree. Another looked like a bunch of sea- attractive warerooms, Cleveland, O.
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Sound Waves
Photographed.
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STAflPS!
A BEAUTIFUL lithograph of Miss Theodora
PfaffHn, the popular soprano, has reached this
office. Miss PfafTHn is adding to her already
wide reputation by her concert work, en tour,
with Eugene Ysaye, the celebrated violinist.
THE Chicago Cottage Organ Company are
meeting with quite a demand just now for Con-
over pianos. The facilities of the factory are
being tested. Pianos are sold as fast as they are
manufactured.
SCHIMMEL & NELSON, Faribault, Minn., have
been sued by H. R. Thomson & Son, Owatonna,
Minn., for damages which they place at $18,500
due to violation of contract. A suit has also
been brought against Schimmel & Nelson by
the Thomson Music Co., of the same place, for
violation of contract and commissions amount-
ing to $2,584.90.
THE WINONA SEMINARY, at Winona, Minn.,,
which is in charge of the Franciscan Sisters,
purchased a car load of Conover pianos through
Bell's Music House, in that city, a short time
ago, and the Sisters have sent the Chicago Cot-
tage Organ Company a very complimentary let-
ter, in which they express their appreciation of
the merits of the Conover pianos.
MR. ROBT. M. WEBB received a large invoice
of Billion Felt this week, amounting, we believe,
to about two thousand pounds. Mr. Webb re-
ports quite a demand for this felt.
W. H. SHOEMAKER, Washington, D. C , has
taken the agency for the Wheelock piano.
A. B. CHASE pianos have been purchased for
all the public schools in Anderson, Ind.
A NEW piano warerooni has been opened on
South Pinckney street, Madison, Wis., by A. E.
Graves, agent for J. B. Bradford, Milwaukee,
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