MUSIC HATH CHARMS

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 697, 22 August 1914, Page 4

MUSIC HATH CHARMS

In no direction has the reelm of music advanced more rapidly than in that oE mechanical reproduction. Mr 4Sdison aims at —not merely perfect reproduction aa ttia terms would ordinarily bo understood— but at ultra perfect music. Thia ho expects to attain by eliminating all extraneous noises, winch have (even though some of them be not audible) a deteriorating effect in their sum total. It H comparatively easv to exclude the noises which mar a public performance, but there are other noises not so easy to deal with and even the dead midnight .silence of a cathedral has Bounds known to science. "Tinned music." aa 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'B 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'B song—when this is realised it will be at once understood why A. E. Robinson it carrying at his music and sports depot Buch a splendid and well-assorte stock of machines and records.

The dweller in tho backblocks who is without a gramophone deprives himself of quite the most interesting, educative and sociable companionship open to him. A. E. Robinson sells) gramophones from thirty shillings upwards, and here let it bo noted that tho cheap machines of to-day are superior to "the dearer machines of a decade since. Dounle-sided records aiv on sale at Robinson's music dpeot, T« Kuiti, at half a crown upwards. The new half crown records are quite strong,qbeing much more nubstantial than those first on sal*?.' 1 '