Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-02-24
GAS FLAMES PLAY
ANY old Tune
iNVENTS NEW WAY TO PRODUCE
MUSICAL TONES.
Flame Music, Not the Only New Die.
covery-Expert Says Musical
Tones Also Have Color.

Tones Also Have Color.
What would you think il you heard
a patriotic Irishman ask musician
to play "The Wearing Of the Green
i'll green? Or, at some other time, a
blushing man should call for my
Love Is Like Red, Red Rose," in
Red? Even a Scotchman entreating
for "Blue Bells of Scotland" in pale
blue? You might be excused for
thinking all of them were little bit
daffy, but their sanity could be easily
proved--proved beyond doubt by
Albert j. Pyne's latest musical inven-
ton which makes colored music with
ordinary flames from gas jet.
He does it by placing n long glass
tube over the gas flame, then running
the gas to certain height, Striking
a tone on musical instrument,
causes the flame to vibrate and re-
produce the tones within the tube.
Tested with violin, Mr.. Pyne re-
produces the same sweet musical tone
as the violin.
It is a possibility that when the
flames are thoroughly mastered every
orc using gas in the home may have
his own gas pipe organ.
There are infinite possibilities to
| the discovery made by Pyne. For in
stance: What thriving business
| the "Gas Flame Conservatory OF Mu-
| sic" could do? and the man who first
| inserts the advertisement, "Flame
| music taught by mail" likely will reap
| a large reward.
Mr.. Pyne, a Pennsylvania, does
through all the tone calisthentics
| known to the musical world, but he
| does say he can make the flame from
an ordinary gas light give out mu-
sical tone as sweet as that of VIC.
| lin and exceeding the tones Of that
instrument in volume many times.
| Also. Mr.. Pyne can cause the gas
| flowing from chandeliers or jets to
| tango, hesitate and fox trot, merely
hy striking certain tones on musi-
cal instrument.
"Flame music" is not the only thing
Mr.. Pyne has discovered. He says
music actually has color. He does
not claim to be the first to have con.
ceiyed this idea, but he expects to
be the first to be able to prove to
the world that tone color is a fact.
Hence to the other possibilities open
ed up in the musical world may be
added another. How nice for milady,
when giving musicale, to order deli
cate Nile green music to harmonize
with her gown. Or, if her drawing
room or music room be done in old
rose, how comforting and restful to
have all the music of like tint.
| Mr.. Pyne says he expects that
within a short time it will be proved,
even to the satisfaction of the lay
men, that the color of certain tones
may be seen with the naked eye. But
| that is thing of the future, the
| fame music is thing of the present.
| Flame music, according to Mr..
Pyne, is made by placing long glass
tube over the gas flame, then running
! the gas to certain height. When it
attains the desired height he strikes
tone on musical instrument,
which causes the fame to vibrate and
| sing within the glass tube. He de-
olares he has caused the flame to
sing with such volume as to be
heard throughout the entire building
| in which he lives. Mr.. Pyne declares
he will not seek to patent his inven-
| ton. as he wants others to Use it and
improve upon it.
Mr.. Pyne is an auditor in the Off
ces of the, Westinghouse Electric Co.
| at East Pittsburgh. He declares his
! musical genius is mostly acquired.
! He has invented more than 4 dozen
| musical instruments of unique design
and also has several compositions
to his credit. He plays all of the in
| struments of his own make.
Mr.. Pyne has invented metallic
harp, which is operated with heavy
| gloves, the player rubbing the strings
| of metal, instead of striking them.
| He has invented stringing bells which
| he calls Parsifal bells, and guitar
OF twelve strings.
He has invented series of elec-
| trio bells, Xylophone of some four
octaves composed of thirty-two
| blocks of wood only; a metalophone,
| musical glasses, numbering thirty
seven, of different type of operation
from any others in use, he having
tested more than 1000 glasses of
special make to get his thirty.seven;
a number of tap bells. musical sleigh
bells, cathedral chimes, an auto-harp
and number of other novelties.
Mrs. Pyne, an accomplished pian-
ist, has aided her husband in the de-
velopment of his musical novelties.
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