Smyrna times., 1877-03-07
The Music Of the Future.

AT the annual ball of the Chicago Tel
egraphers on last Monday evening there
was the usual gayety and .ioyousness of
such occasions, but the most charming fea-
tufe OF the evenings entertainment was
music from the telephone. The principal
portion OF the instrument is q thin flexible
DISK, which receives the acoustic vibrations
transmitted by telegraph. instruments of
this sort, sixteen in number, were suspended
over the musicians platform, and from
them foated the strains of a waltz plaved
at milwaukee, eighty five miles away, After
ward came marches-sweet, clear and dis
tlnct in sound. A similar instrument was
placed In the Chicago Tribune office, and
| the reporters were cheered in their tasks
by Music in the All" "Robin Adair," "NTv
Country, lis OF Thee" and other popular
melodies. The telephone was declared to
be decided success. The invention of
this instrument presents view Of immense
! possibilities. If musical sounds may be
transmitted eighty miles, why not for hun
dreds OF miles; why not for thousands?
why may not future BayreUth perform
ances OF Wagner trolley be tclephoncally
transmitted to art centres throughout the
the world? The telegraph, once scientific
toy, has become an ordinary convenience of
OF life. 80 it may be with the telephone.
AT present prOprietOrs of beer halls, are at
expense for Ochestrions, and upon extraor-
binary occasions must hire a band: but
when the art patrons of New York have
built Theodore Thomas magnificent music
nail, why may not the telephone be efa.
piocyed to furnish supplies of music? Just
think OF the convenience of having music
on tap. District telegraph companies might
introduce the convenience into private
houses, and music for a select company MIGHT
DC ofdered from the caterer, together with the
ulsnes ana the tiowers. Above the BANQUET
table OF the future hang beautifully orna.
mented telephones, from which loat down
delicious strains of music from the best
ochestras of New York or London or Paris
or Berlin. A new field is omen for nrettv
aesthetic devices. The floral bell pendent
over the heads of the bridal couple may be
made to mask telephone, and so it be-
comes vocal with SOFT sweet harmonies.
hat delightful evenings at home for musi-
cal amateurs on the occasion of some grand
concert teIephOnically transmitted from a
dlstant city. And were it indeed so that
celestial spaces are filled with divine har
monies of sound, and that
Not the smallest orb, which then beholdst
But in his motion like an angel sings
sun qulrlng to the yCung-eyed seraphim-
a;rial telephone draw down the music Of
the spheres. There are other obvious an. !
pllcations of the new discovery. Tele- |
phonlc apparatus in the halls of Congress |
might transmit abroad the oratory of |
American statesmen, and the telephone
auditor would have the immense advantage
oi heing able to cut off the flow of eloouence |
at Will. When the hOarse roar of LOGAN.
or the harsh stammer of John Sherman. or
the husky twaddle of Dawes, should be
emitted by the telephone, it would be but
the work of moment to break off the
electric circuit, and thus stop the flow,
while the unfortunate visitor to the cal.
ienes Of the capitol might be so tightly
Iammed In by the crowd that a considera-
BILE time would elapse before he could
make his escape. Such are some of the
possible applications of the instrument:
w hat wonderful age it is that has produ
ced the blue-glass cure and the telephone!