Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-23


tached to this force transmitters Of
form and color, as Kelley proposes to-
hitch his famous motor to the great
force Of sound vibration. The results
Of these experiments have been that
a Chopin nOcturne may now be played
In cOlOrs or an aria drawn in outline
by sensitized transmitters.
Remington, in England, has invented
the color organ and formulated a
scheme of tone colors. Prof. H. E.
Clifford, of the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute of Technology, in Boston, has
produced by the vibrations of violin
bow, or Of the human voice through a
metal tube, upon tightly drawn cat.
gut tambour head or a metal plate, fig
ure music from a handful of fine sand
shifted by the vibrations into plainly
defined drawings.
The scientific musicale is the latest,
form Of society entertainment. Not
long ago one was given in this city, at
tended by select audience of musical
folk, By Miss Charlotte W. Halves, the
Boston music litterateur, who Is to.
lecture before Sorosis in few weeks,
Miss Hawes' musicale consisted of
monolOgue on THE Music of Nature"
illustrated by the curious latter-day:
discoveries in physical science on the
laws Of vibration.
She illustrated her interesting theo-
ries with an array of paraphernalia,
demonstrating the relation between the
unseen tone and the tangible and visi-
BILE demonstration of form. Through
tubes vibrating on a metal surface
strewed with sand the octave was sung.
first by soprano voice, and then by a
contralto.
Each note shifted the sand into dis
tinct geometrical figure, its repetition
bringing always the same form upon
the metal. The scale, note by note,
shaped the sand into a series of figures
like the turning OF Kaleidoscope. Each
note, in number of experiments, has
a corresponding figure, varying slightly
in size and detail, according to the
register of the voice.
In the same way the tones Of a vio-
lin were drawn in outline upon the cat
gut in shifting sand, the communica-
ton Of the vibration being made
through silken string. The geomet-
rical figures formed by the violin notes
were much more distinct and delicately
detailed than those formed by the hui
man voice. The shape Of the fiat
was-distinctly different from a natural;
chords were not attempted, but it is be-
lieved that the correlation between tone
and form is to be a discovery Of the
Investigators in physical science.
She also declared that human beings
had their key-notes. They speak by
custom in the pitch which nature had
given them, which is varied in major
or minor by the emotions expressed,
and they naturally choose for their
friends people whose voices accorded
with theirs. For instance, you will
rarely find thin-voiced man chum-
ming with deep bass singer.
Remington's experiments in tone col,
or have caused London society folk to-
sit through entire concert recitals in
total darkness, watching Wagner's
operas and Beethoven's symphonies
flashed in their corresponding colors on
. screen.
"They play an air on a color organ"
says a London writer, "and it throws
different colors on a screen, varying
according to the keys pressed down. 1T
is very ingenious and opens up quite
a new field in the way of describing
dress at social gatherings. Imagine
this kind of thing:
"'Mrs. So-and-SO attracted great at
tention by her magnificent costume,
embodying the brilliant bizarrerie Of
LISTS Second Hungarian Rhapsody,
and a graceful young woman looked
we'll in a delicate costume made up
from Grieg's Spring Idyll." The hats
positively shouted at one; they were
: founded for the most part on the bar
barrie strains Of the "Walkurenritt," so
that it was a positive relief to turn.
one's ewes to Miss Asterisk in a cotume