T'OTHER FROM WHICH

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 29 June 1928, Page 5

T'OTHER FROM WHICH

-- GRAMOPHONE RECORD OR VOICE? A NOVELTY feature of 3YA's programme on Monday evening was the broadcasting of gramophone reproductions of songs sung by Mr, Percy ‘Nicholls, tenor, and -f the same songs ‘gung by him personally in the studio, Listeners were not informed by the announcer as to which was which, but were invited to decide for themselves. In the case of the first song, "Ave Maria," the record was put on first and electrically reproduced, to be followed

by Mr. Nicholls’s own voice. In the case of the second song, "Yale," Mr. Nicholls sang first. Numerous people at once rang up the studio and many rang up Mr, Nicholls at his home. Still more have written to the studio. Opinion as to which was the record and which the voice have ween fairly evenly divided, and the decisions arrived at have been ased on « variety of clues, The test proved a great compliment to the excellence of electrically-reproduced records, the records in question were made when Mr. Nicholls was recently in Sydney. Some further interesting experiments in the utilisation of records in co-opet-ation with the human voice can be looked forward to from 3YA.