A TELEPHONE CONCERT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 828, 1 March 1878, Page 2

A TELEPHONE CONCERT.

The Vendors of the telephone were exemplified on Tuesday evening last at the Post-offices at Clyde, Opbir, Cromwell and Naseby, at each station there was a programme to bo gone through which was duly received at the others. By the courtesy of' Mr Pewar we were present, and we have at this stage of the telephone to express our opinion that when anything like a public trial of the instrument takes place, that but few be present, dispensing with musical instruments, &c., and rest satisfied with the sending of the voice, which, if satisfactorily proved to he a success, would undoubtedly prove to the genera' public that if it was possible in conveying verbal messages, that sounds of all kinds—from the bellowing of a bull to tho braying of a brass baud—would be equally as successful. It is essential even in the receiving of any verbal message that quiet should exist, hut in the case of last Tuesday evening it was positively impossible to keep that silence which was absolutely nccesssary in tho transmitting of music—instrumental and vocal—in the case of Clyde, though the vocal was mote audible, hut we should imagine that the Clyde Brass Band was very plainly heard at the respective stations from the very demonstrative calls for a repetition of certain airs. Th»re in one thing very certain that it is only some people that have the voice to send the sound true, and must mention that wo thought that, at our end of the' line, the only Voice recognised, and every word disiinfetlyhcavd, v as transmitted 1 by Mr Ward, at Cromwell. Tt is not our I intention to particularise, but may say that the word " coney 1 ' in the most distinguish-

able in all that we heard, and you can heal* that—whether it comes from Cromwell or Naseby—distinctly at any portion of the room. There is not the slightest doubt that great improvements will, ere long, bo made in the instrument, and with these and the greater knowledge of the operators with the same, that the telephone will supercede the telegraph- ..