Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-01
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VOL AIIE.--A0. 1.
Communication. e..
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The Electro-M Magnetic Or
chestra at the Cen
tennial.

40 4" SN"lS d 81 JHl dlily Win SOUNDS,
and as the mind is pitcL'd the ear is
pleased
With melting airs of martial, brisk or
grave.
Some chord in unison with what we hear,
Is touched within US, and the heart re-
plies.' IS
When music was yet in in
fancy, Pan piped on a reed, and
Apollo played on his flute. AT
terward Orpheus, the son of
Apollo and Calli6pes,' e. Inherited
from them the fascinating pow
er with. which he played the
Tyre, and sang, cahsing the'
birds, fishes, beasts and even
the trees, rocks and hills to.
gather around him in one vast
assembly, So narrates the my
tholo9y OF ancient Greece.
Upon the hills that encom-
pass the quiet and sacred vii
lage of Bethlehem Judah, near
ly three thousand years ago,
might have been seen David,the
son of Jesse, guarding his faith
er's aocks. This beautiful boy
was growing up amid pastoral.
scenes with a Sotl fulll of .cel6s-
tial'song:.- Taking. up his Harp,
fashioned as if by music s hapd,
the "sweet singer Of IsrraeeP'1
would pour forth in sweet, sim il
pllcity some pastoral air, Or sa-
cred song to the surrounding
hills, which echoed back to the
harmonious sounds in the deer
solitude. Fheh ihstrpiaeutts Of |
music were but few, constructed
with simplicity, yet, like the
music, must have Been pictu-
rescue and beautiful. Withthel
advancement of the world the
number OF, musical instruments
have Increased almost to ipGni-t
ty. Passing by those which
have been introduced since. thel
time Of David We will direct
your attention to the Electro
Magnetic Orchestra-the, tri-
umph of the nineteenth centu-
ry. This Instrument is exhibi-
ted by a firm in Philadelphia, /
Pa, in Horticultural hail. at the I
Centennial exhibition, It, isl
olie olie OF lhe most ingenious .mu-
sical instruments the world has4
ever. seen. It's charming music,
which surpasges the most. ac- |
complished Performers S,' receives 'aa,ii
merited praise from the Vast,
as assembly, Of admiringy liiste5nerse
l 10 construct a machine whichf
Is both lnstrument, and perforni- I
er e i is surely rely one Of the greatest
fSs2 feals of the the age: adf ~ II
The way in WHICH the readingt
and 3diperiooIr1mingmnsicby by electric
lty Is executed may beexplAintdl
as az 10 sl5o]llQTS;4 The music, sheets
are are IN n the form ofTolls. In the
place Of printed notes perlola-
tons are cut in the sheet. al
metallic plate is placed beneath 3
over which the sheet is draBn,
so that the Platelshows through
The paper wherever the per-
loratlons exist. Above the
sheet ISIS row of feelers. or
,'readers," whose Office is to dis
tlnguIsl the notes. The sheet
Is. made to pass undertake feel.
ers with rollers grotatGClh by a
mechanism called a Hwind en-
8ine, which has allthe necessa-
fy elemeptsre6ra steam engine,
represented hoWeyerdin such a
different form that,sho resemgir
4lance to the, latter remains. z
Ihernoise or puff ofthe 5Hwindl,
is prevented .luy a ape-i
cnllar aIrangeHen1of the9aITesI
and motion Of The cnt-oE. s!Fhef.
InstrumenEunder consideration
has sevefd shanGh'sa ,tqea 9ers,' !
olt tfeeleisstanding.ei55 f3re,l-,
ar hiaifEa,ll9cciiPy QhlYs \ ! a,shlaIlF
space. The electricity which
may be called u hundred fin
geredl performer, peryades them