A NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 207, 6 February 1875, Page 3

A NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

The following notice of an invention by an old resident in Christchurch is extracted from a San Francisco journal:— Richard Kohler, who, in addition to being the first cornet player on the Pacific Coast, is a universal musical genius, spent a large Eortion of the year 1874 in forming and ringing to perfection a musical instrument which he has named the "Water Flute." It is an improvement on the "Tumbleronicon," and under the manipulation of Mr Kohler discourses music as superior to that instrument as the peal of the organ is to the turn turn of the banjo. Kohler plays with soul and feeling, he is a thorough musician, loves his art, and delights in finding for it new modes of expression. He gave his first exhibition of the Water Flute on Wednesday night, at the Christmas-New Year's High Jinks of the Bohemian Club, of which he is an honored member. His audience were delighted with the enrapturing music he drew from the simply constructed mstru ment, and encored the performance again and again. The " musical glasses " are over a hundred years old, -but Kohler's Water Flute is to the original what the grand piano forte of the present day is to the spinnet or harpsichord of our grandfather's days. We hope ere long the general public will be afforded an opportunity of listening to this sweet music,