MUSIC HATH CHARMS

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 696, 19 August 1914, Page 5

MUSIC HATH CHARMS

In no direction has the realm of music advanced more rapidly than in that of mechanical reproduction. Mr Edison Rims at—not merely perfect reproduction as the terms would ordinarily be understood-but at ultra perfect music. This he expects to attain by eliminating all extraneous noises, wcich have (even though some of them be not audible) a deteriorating effect in their sum total. It ii comparatively easv to exclude the noises which mar a public performance, but there aro other noides not bo aasy to deal with and even the dead midnight silence of a cathedral has sounds known to science. "Tinned music." as the reproduction of the phonograph and gramophone have been slightingly called has come to stay. It is already much better than the brand in general use. When it is realised that one can, by very modest expenditure and in the comfort of one's own home, hear the very best music—vocal and instrumental, amusing and serious, secular and sacred the best of recitations.a friends' voice or a bird's song—when this is realis' ed it will be at ouce understood why A. E. Robinson is carrying at his music and sports depot such a splendid and well-assorte stock of machines and records. The dweller in the beckblocks who is without a gramophone deprives himself of quite the most interesting, educative and sociable companionship open to him. A. E. Robinson sella gramophones from thirty shillings upwards, and here let it be noted that the cheap machines of to-day are superior to the dearer machines of a decade since. Dounle-sided records are on sale at Robinson's music dpcot, T« Kuiti, at half a crown upwards. The new half crown records are quite strong, being much more substantial than those first on sal".*