The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-13
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and, Furthermore, In inventing machinery
by which a plain brass tube could thus
be converted.
Edison was fascinated with IL, declared
that he should make some experiment
with 1t and expressed the belief that by
It's employment he would be able 40 solve
the problem of utilizing reheated COM
pressed air. Whether he will be able to
do so or not remains to be seen, but II Is
noticed that some OF the capitalists who
are associated with Edison are inclined
40 the opinion that the one thing needed
vastly to cheaper the commercial use OF
compressed air may have been obtained.
If thai proves TO be the case then Ger
many and her scientists have beaten Great
Britain and hers Notwithstanding the fact
that our English friends have been chuck
ling about their triumph over American
inventive skill with respect TO the inven-
ton of a perfect, metallic, flexible tube
Edison, however, discovered another
quality in this spiral tube which not even
the inventors of ID had known II contain
ed. He happened accidentally to put the
tube TO his lips and blew through 1t per-
haps to expel dust that may have gath
cred in 1t. 1t Immediately gave out sound
as clear and pure as that which comes
from flute, and as Edison continued 10
blow that sound was followed by another
afterwards discovered to have been Just
an octave higher than the first. Edison
increasing OF the pressure of the breath,
this tube gave forth four distinct futeIike
tones
The experiment was made upon a long,
er tube but of smaller bore and II was
discovered that with one breath through
1t this tube was capable OF producing an
entire octave, the notes not being brassy
or strident like most of those that come
from metallic instruments, but something
between the tone of a flute and OF a flag
eolet. IL did not require the skilful con-
traction OF the lips or employment OF the
tongue which are necessary when tones
are obtained from bugle cornet or nfe.
All that was necessary to produce these
musical notes was greater or less strength
or breath blown through the tube.
New Musical Instrument.
So far as known that is a discovery and
1t may lead to some important conse-
quences, such as the manufacture of n
new musical instrument. The makers of
instruments have been Of the opinion
that we have exhausted all the POSSIBLE
tiles OF instrumental production OF music
and that any new Instruments would be
nothing more than notifications of those
that are well known. But this discovery
seems to indicate that "a brass tube fiuted
or grooved in a spiral manner Is capabl
OF producing musical tones without any
arduous employment of the breath or
skilled use of the tongue.
The matter has been submitted to one or
two of our instrument makers, and they
will take the OubJect up with a view of
making experiments hoping, of course
that these VIII lead to the perfection of
a new musical instrument. It will be
necessary for them first to discover in
what way the screw-lke grooves or spi-
raj thread ACT upon the air when II Is
blown into the tube. There are two theo-
ries as to the reason why huting a tube
In this manner makes It possible to pro-
duce with a single breath, increased or
diminished in intensity, a musical octave.