Arizona republican., 1921-08-07

having to listen to it. Of course we are not considering others who had to listen to the practice, and more
 than the story runs of the Spanish general who exclaimed, after his troops had been cut to pieces by the American soldiers cannon fire during the Spanish American war:
 The Americana thinks of the brave men that stood behind the Ameri- canos guns. but they don't think of the brave men that stood in front of the Americano's guns"
 A stupendous revival of the old Gilbert Sullivan opera "Pinafore," is being planned for next winter at Hamilton harbor, Bermuda. A grand stand seating 10000 persons and a
 horseshoe of 100 boxes are to be constructed on the sands for the
 convenience of the numerous yisi- tors that flock to the resort in the height of the winter season.
 Airplanes will first circle the har- Dor and drop Illuminating bombs, displaying the allied colors sus- pended by invisible parachutes Powerful searchlights on shore will play on I'll. NJ. S. Pinafore" as she sails from her anchorage in the outer harbor down to the waters in front of the grand stand at the Isle of Wight.
 The orchestra will then commence the overture, and the company will proceed with the operetta. Local talent will be ngaged for the chorus, but the principals will be the best Broadway cast attainable. Reminiscence brings to light the local production of "Pinafore" by the Elks' lodge of this city some eight years ago Maria Tiffany. now of Metropolitan opera fame, was the leading lady, Paul Renau Ingles, Frank Connolly, Harry Well and nix was alive in music then; the company performed in Prescott Tucson and Bisbee besides a return engagement in Phoenix.
 l The word "canned" as applied to what was heretofore known as me l chanicaI' music, is disappearing. The 1 mechanical side of phonograph
 talking machines and player pianos is being eliminated in the artistic development of the voice reproducer the talking machine-and the Am pico, better known as the repro ducing piano. It is not many years l since we placed the rubber tubes l to our ears and paid nickel to hear l spueaks, scratches and resem- blance of the human voice by which 1 the imagination came largely into l play. Today, while Caruso is nc l longer with us in person, yet we 1 can seat ourselves fifteen or twenty I feet away from Victrola and hear the wonderful quality of his voice The development of the heretofore known canned music can be appre- ciated when we can only read an6 be told about the voice of Jenny
 Lind. In the matter of the repro
 ducing piano. the development is 100 per cent perfect. By 100 per 1 cent perfect we mean that there is no difference between the playing O, Paderewski, Godowsky, Bauer. Grieg d'Albert, Carreno and fifty other great pianists.-no difference be-
 tween their actual playing and the
 reproduction by the Ampico. The
 same tone, derived by the same
 touch. containing all the expressions I of tempo, nuances and dynamics. is
 given as authorized by the artist
 In fact, we may go a little stronger and point out that all portions of 1 the Ampico recordings are carefully gone over by the pianist and every portion of the piece. is played in the pianists best style. In some com parative recitals given before criti- cal audiences it has been demon- strated that on several occasions when the artist was not at his best, the Ampico played better than the artist It is hoped that plans now afoot will materialize so that Phoe- nix will have the opportunity to have few comparative Ampico re- citals during this winter season.
 The city band is doing some excel lent work under the painstaking in-