The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05

ed the system which is in some respects
the most remarkable electrical achieve
ment NJ The age, II IA theoretically
and In time VIII become 10 practically
the only mechanically perfect mu-
steal instrument, unlimited as 10 power
Of expression and "a its capacity for
tranmiSsion, nhe' eystem's value 10
musical art does mob seem 10 depend
chiefly on tho imitation OF existing in
struments, That r. a point insisted on
with great emphasis by the inventor.
Although its power OF reproducing the
tones 81 other instruments and or
transmitting them and combining them
gives n great commercial value. It's
real supremacy exists IN the fact that
II Is capable ~ originating new tones.
those that have never been produced
by any existing instrument II is abb
solutoly new creation, music set FREQ
by electrical energy, an expansion ot
tone quality that has never before been
revealed TO human ears.
Its Possibilities. V
II Is not possible NJ this time 10 es-
innate tho value Of tho now discovery
to musical art The extraordinary pos
sibilities which It suggests are fairly
dazzling 10 tho educated musician.
Many Of the worlds greatest artists
have looked into it's operation with
awe and admiration, II has played to
audiences miles distant, and It's cur
rents have boon transmitted through
the equivalent In resistance Of 900 miles
OF open wire and nine miles OF telo-,
phone cable, producing good musical
effect at the end Stcpup transformers
were used In the long distance trans
mission TO augment the voltage along
the line
Perfectly successful wireless trans-
mission Of the telharmonic currents has
been effected al distance Of ten miles.
This experiment had for It's receiving
point a battlcship In New York harbor.
and 1t has also been made successfully
at other times Wireless experts who
have Investigated tho system predict
that In a year or 80 ocean liners may
have telharmonlc concerts during tho
first few evenings OF n transatlantic
voyage, the melody coming from the
central station I'm New York. Several
leading hotels and restaurants and at
least two theaters have had the long
distance music in their supper rooms
and audltorlums.
II is the intention NJ those who ara
developing the scheme to make this
new music as much Of commodity as
are the Illuminating. current the tele-
phone or, for that matter, the daily
paper The system Of wiring is being
extended from the central station 10 all
parts Of New York. The time is at
hand when large hotels win have the
wiring in all rooms so that precisely as
Dne now asks by telephone for ice wa
Ter or stationery he may ask for music.
which will be supplied by means Of
switchboard in the office, The great
department. stores will soon be supplied
with the telharmonic system, and II has
been proposed 10 run the wires into
hospital wards.
In view of the sedative influence of
good music played softly some sub
'cribers to the telharmonic service
AVE had the wires installed in thelr.
sleeping rooms so that the current may
,e turned on at any time In the night
when they are inclined to be wakeful
I is also possible by means of a very
lever tloclSworlp device to be Weakened
L any hour one elects by tho perform
nee or say Mendelssohn's Spring
Song az a string quartet THIS Is lux-
Try indeed, GEORGE H. PICARD.