MUSIC FROM THE AIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 227, 14 December 1927, Page 8

MUSIC FROM THE AIR

NEW MARVEL OF SCIENCE LONDON DEMONSTRATION By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. Professor Theremin, of Russia, received the congratulations of Sir Oliver Lodge and other British scientists, when he demonstrated successfully at the Albert Hall his invention of obtaining music from vibrations of the air.—A. and N.Z.

It was reported in September that a remarkable invention by which music is extracted from the air was shovn at a demonstration at the Pechstein Hs.ll, Berlin, which was attended by Professor Einstein and many other German professors and Mr. C. B- Cochran, the English stage producer. The inventor. Professor Theremin, •- Russia, stood on the stage near a smak wooden box from which a brasi rod & foot long projected. He merely Titrate bis fingers in the air as though placing on a musical instrument, and instantly a tune was extracted as the result of agitation of the waves of air rea-un* upon the instrument. . The scientists present accepted an nm tat ion to play on the air, andu succeeded in weaving a tune. The n««w the hand drew to the brass rod was higher and the tone became deepg as the player withdrew. Certain not« were also produced merely by hllnkin* eves or moving the muscles “V at the right distance from Scientists agreed that the mven vast possibilities.