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unnecessary bends or turns to muffle and "metalize"
the sound, are other products shown by this com-
pany.
Mr. Krasberg came to see the show at the expense
of precious time, but said he was more than pleased.
Mr. Harmer and Mr. Cook were exceedingly busy
with old and prospective customers with that 100
per cent again courtesy that made all feel at home.
AUDIENCE CHINA TO PERU
Great New York Daily Says World Owes Much to
Phonograph Inventors.
That music merchants are conferring immortality
on great voices, and also extending their audiences
from one side of the world to the other, was the
comment editorially expressed in last week's Friday
issue of the Sun and New York Herald—a few
thoughts brought out by music week in compliment
to the work of talking machines. The editorial fol-
lows under the head of
"Saving Musicians from Oblivion."
As a result of certain of the almost uncanny inven-
tions on special display in New York this week the
musical lives of thousands of artists will be pro-
longed indefinitely. Records of the product of their
genius, at first crude and consequently resulting in
mere approximations, have been brought to a high
state of perfection.
Through them future ages, in discussing the gift
or talent of the singers, violinists and pianists of to-
day, will have real evidence to go upon, instead of
the vague tradition which is all that is available in
the case of artists of the past.
But not only are the inventors and the music
merchants conferring immortality in a true sense
on the stars of the operatic stage and the concert
platform; they are also extending the size of the
audience until it reaches from China to Peru.
For one person who used to be familiar with
notable performances from actual sense contact, at
the Metropolitan Opera House or Carnegie
Hall, there are hundreds of thousands at present
who are able to gain the experience in an indirect
way.
A notable example of what can be done already
was given the other day when five distinguished
musicians played before a hall full of persons who
afterward heard the program reproduced artificially.
It is astonishing to realize that a machine should
record, as on a highly sensitive plate, not merely
the general characteristics but the color, the elusive
manner, the most secret and puzzling qualities of
the original.
One of the early phonographic records, impris-
oned, gave forth the wonderful voice of the late Pope
Leo XIII, giving the benediction. This led some
one to remark on the thrill we should get were it
possible to hear Julius Caesar or Napoleon the
Great speak, or listen to the Gettysburg speech as
actually delivered by Lincoln.
But the world figures of the future, like the mu-
sicians, will owe much to the ingenious inventors
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to whom little seems difficult and nothing impossi-
ble.
What the effect on public taste of these mechan-
ical reproducers will eventually be it is impossible
to predict. Certainly those to whom the finest
work of the most gifted artists in music is available
will not always -be content with banal and trivial
productions.
HUSS BROTHERS' BLAZE.
Fire starting from an undetermined origin in a
four-story brick building occupied by the Huss
Brothers, manufacturers of phonographs and pho-
nograph records, 6-8-10 W. Canal street, Cincinnati,
threatened to destroy the entire building. Firemen
soon had the fire under control. Operation of the
Huss plant will be discontinued for the time being
until the plant is remodeled. The damage, it was
stated, will exceed $15,000, covered by insurance.
RENTS FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING.
The Emerson Phonograph Co., New York, has
taken a lease on the 4-story building at 206 Fifth
avenue, running through to 1126 Broadway. It will
be recalled by those familiar with that section of
the city that for many years the old building on this
site was occupied by Theodore B. Starr & Sons,
jewelers. The lease is for twenty-one years, at a
rental of about $700,000.
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