The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-04-07
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Strakosch Experiments in Steinway
Hall--P hiladelphia Music Heard Miles
away How 1t is Done.
Strakosch, the Impressario, gave
a private exhibition of tho wonders
of the telephone to a select party of
friends in Steinway Hall, New
York on Saturday night. At half past
eight O'Clock, communicate en- was
established with Philadelphia by
means of common Morse instru-
ment. Then the receiver was
brought forth and placed upon q
closed grand Steinway piano. This
''receiver" Is simply an arrangement
OF long, narrow, hollow, closed
boxes, sixteen in number, tapering
from each end to the centre, the
end box being about two feet long
by three inches deep and three
inches wide, the others tapering
down to six inches long in the
centee-l looking like two cones of
boxes with the apexes meeting. A
common magnet joins the two
smallest, or central boxes. The
boxes ore fastened together by
two strips of wood, with thumb
screws to tighten them at the
pleasure of the person regulating
the apparatus somewhat as a violin
lst will tune his instrument. The
"receiver" having been placed up
right. the narrow end on the closed
piano, the wires were attached to the
magnet and word was transmitted
to the player in Philadelphia to
proceed with the concert. In tho
meantime, the enthusiastic Strakosch
was explaining In an undertone to
one of his friends the wonderful
grandeur of the new system "Why
my dear Sir" said he, 'sit will be an
incalculable blessing to the world.
1t will be the means of converting
society. It will eventually lessen
the long and terrible list Of crimes
now upon our criminal calendars.
Men will learn to love music, and
their baser passions will disappear.
WHO ever know man devoted to
music to commit murder We
shall soon be able to give every
family music just as water and gas
are now received. We shall plant a
monster telephone at some point,
say at St. Louis, which is to cost
about a million of dollars and to
supply the whole of the United
States with delightful melody. Then
you can have wire attached to a
little ''receiver" in your house, and,
0oila you haye music Of the most
bewitching kind. I tell you this is
but in its infancy-yes, sir, in it's
very infancy"
In few seconds the prelude to
HOME SWEET HOME
sounded, low and soft at first, then
louder and sweeter in tone, the
notes gradually swelling into the
quality Of those of O flageolet.
Every sound was clearly heard, and
when tho last prolonged note had
ceased. there was a clar pig Of hands
almost rs heartily as though some
prima donna had been there and
had sung the grand old song. After
an interval of about minute tho
opening notes of the "Laat Roso of
Summer" were sounded. This cir
was played somewhat quicker, and
the panses were not perfect in the
first ton bars. but suddenly tho
higher notes Of the score pealed
forth, strong, clear, pathetic, reveals
ing ut once the tenderness and
delicacy of the new instrument and
it's power in transmitting melody in
the most delightful form. Next an
air from Balfe's Bohemian Girl"
was ordered by the operator, and
before the circuit could fairly bo
completed, the opening strains of
"Whep oth0r lips and other hearts"
were filling tho hall. This was
rendered with faultless precision,
the highest opd the lowest notes
being executed with special accuracy
To use simile, tho impression was
as though a stringed orchestra was
playing at distance, tho waves of
sound following each other in
regular, agreeable succession. It
must not be understood that there
was all the volume, the variety. The