MUSIC HATH CHARMS

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 698, 26 August 1914, Page 4

MUSIC HATH CHARMS

In no direction has the realm of music advanced more rapidly than in that oE mechanical reproduction. Mr Edison aims at —not merely perfect reproduction aB the terms would ordinarily be understood—but at ultra perfect music. Thin hu expects to attain by eliminating all extraneous noises, wnich have (even though B.ome of them be not audible) « deteriorating effect in their sum total. It is comparatively eaav 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 silenco of a cathedral has soundß known to science. "Tinned music," as the reproduction of the phonograph and gramophone, have been slightingly called has come to stay. It ia already much better than the brand in general uao. 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, amußing and serious, secular and sacred the best of recitations,a friends' voice or a bird'B Bong —when this is realised it will be at once understood why v , A. E. Robinson ia carrying at hiH music and sports depot ouch a splendid and well assorte stock of machines and recordß.

The dweller in the backblockH who is without a gramophone deprives himself of quite the moat interesting, educative and Hociable 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. Double-sided records are on sale at Robinson's music dpeot, To Kuiti, at half a crown upwards. The new half crown records are quite strong, being much more substantial tha;i thoeo first on sale.*