The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-06-21

A rts,isu lavsntlon VVAssh Psssiss a
Uclsntlsts q Rnglaad.


A rtasisn lavsntion WAssA Psssiss ths
Dcisntlsts u Haelaad. &
Edison, the famous inventor, Il at
last fairly outrlvsold. and in depart
mont hitherto considered peculiarly
his own. Carlo Bozsa, an italian, lfas
just perfected series Of inventions
for the application Of electrical power
by means Of which he telegraphA or
produces at any distance. tho con-
certed orchestra music Of the great
composers, or, indeed, any music
Unaided. save by q powerful battery.
he plays all the instruments Of . brass
band to the number Of thirty or forty.
with the usual accomplishments Of
drums castanets triangle. cymbala.
etc, and the music IL produced at any
required distance from the operator.
It is, to say the least an extraordinary
performance that one man should be
able to play the most difacult music
usually the work of twenty, thirty. or
forty trained professional musicians,
with power and perfection Of rem.
doring equal to that Of full band.
But this is not all.
The popularity which gives to the
performances weird-liko effect Is the
fact that the instruments are suspend
ed In mid-air at distance from the
former, and separated from each other
by as many feet or yards as the dimen.
sions Of hall will permit Of. Signor
Bozza is at present giving rehearsal
illustrations Of his marvellous combine
ton of inventions in Liverpool. and
has made application to the managers
of the Italian Exhibition to be held in
London to give his peri there.
As an Italian, he doubtless regards
this as the most fitting Of places to
bring prominently before the public
Of all nations his wonderful achiev-
ment Electrical ex ports who may be
more or less skilled In instrumental
music will doubtless. on seeing the ia.
+ struments and hearing them played
upon. make shrewd guesses at the
n,olus opsrandt
Tho beating Of drums, gongs bells,
ETC., and. percussion effects upon them
by electricity. are by no means new.
having been exhibited at various times
for many years, but the playing Of
wind instruments has never been at
tempted, and most certainly never be-
fore accomplished, and Slgnor Bozza
has wisely prot tected the results Of
his long and patient study by patent.
These who have heard his perform.
ances agree that the effect of one set
of instruments played in mid-air in
one part Of the hall, and Others at
various distances and at different
sides and ends OF the building, Is .
charm and cadence unknown to the
ordinary rendering by a number Of
musicians assembled close to each
other.
In addition to playing the whole Of
the instruments OF brass band.
Signor Bozza plays the sweetest airs
upon q harmonium also suspend cd
in mid-air at distance from him.
and likewise upon a number Of clar-
ionots, piccolos and futoA BY means
Of switches he plays upon any number
or upon all Of these various instru-
ments together by single touches upon
his marvelously clever key board. II
n board Of about twenty inches
square supported upon q pillar Of
about six inches in diameter can be so
termed. Signor Bozza has also In
vented now musical instrument
playable only by electricity; 1t Is
made Of porcelain. and from 1t he
produces m usic quito unique in sweet
| ness and penetration. T. Tribune.