Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-08
MUSIC DELIVERED BY WIRE
Sweet Sound, Turned on Like EshtWonderfu Invention of
Dr. Cabill

~ r. THADDEUS CAHlLL'S inyen-
| tlon, the dynamophone. is now
\ ready Tor installation IN New
York City No musical instru-
mcnt ever departed further from the
ordinary conception II what a musical
instrument should be- says McCuro's
Magazine. Filling q large basement
with steel machinery-shafts, dyna-
mos electric alternators. transformers
and switch boards---it gives the i'm
preston Of nothing 80 much as a busy
machine shop.
Operating at fun speed IT apparent
ly produces nothing az all. Nowhere
j. there the slightest sound of music.
You may 81 and watch Il playing a
symphony Of Beethoven and hear
nothing save a staccat0 OF metallic
clicks from the electric switches. ac-
companicd. II you examine closely, by
minute sparks and flashes. OF an
musical instruments ever constructed
Il Is certainly the largest and heaviest.
none other probably ever cost so much
money. more than 100000 having
been expended in building the first
machine. and none ever required or
gave opportunity Tor he use OF more
human skill in playing
Highly skilled musicians located DO
n quiet room distant from tho whir of
the machine regulate the production
Of these waves by playing upon key
boards similar 10 those OF the pipe or
gan. Connecting with the central plant
cables are laid I'm the streets from
which wires may he run into your
home or mine or into restaurants,
thoaters. churches schools or wher-
ever music Is desired. Upon our table
or attached 10 the wall we have tcio-
phone receiver with a funnel attached.
By opening a switch we may turn
on the music But Is the music mol
mechanical? Cannot YOU hear the ma
chinery? Is II possible that such
machine can be made 10 convey the
emotion Of the player?
These were the questions uppermoSt
I'm my own mind when i went 10 Holy
oke. Mass, where Or Cahill has his
laboratory and whore he has Just COM
pleted his second machine, the one
now being installed in New York city
4 wire runs from the laboratory TO
the Hamilton hotel. about a mile away
and the telephone receiver. fitted with
a big paper horn. was placed on q
chair i'm the ballroom a. the top OF the
building. a switch near at hand turn
ed on the music and regulated the
tones either soft or loud, the must
clans. Of course, being located 40 the
keyboard IN their own small room al
the laboratory a mile away.
am not a musical critic, but Of a
few things any one may at once make
sure. When the music began II SEEM
ed to MI the entire room with singu-
larly clear. sweet, perfect tones. Al
though expecting somehow TO hear
the whir of machinery or the scraping
sounds common to the photograph. l
was AT frst so much interested in the
music itself that ! did not once recall
It's source.
Afterward listened especially for
some evidence ~ the noisy dyramns
which ! had just seen. but without
distinguishing a single Earring sound;
nor was there any holloNuess or
strangeness traceahlc to the telephone
or It's horn attachment. II was pure
music, conveying musical emotion
without interference or diversion
The music apparently comes out
Of nothingness, no players to be seen,
no instrument. nothing hut two wires
running out Of the wall and I'm hum
dreds ofdifferent place widely separated
the present machine can supply more