Man-less Music

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 28, 25 January 1929, Page 31

Man-less Music

HE "Times" correspondent had an interesting description the other day about the battleship Centurion, which has recently been manoeuvred and wirelessly-controlled as a targetship, which read as follows :- "It is customary for the bands of all large men-of-war to play on leaving or entering harbour, and the ‘Centurion,’ having no musicians,. has installed instead an amplifier fitted to an ordinary gramophone, which transmits martial music through a loudspeaker on deck. It was played for our benefit, and we can quite believe that the music created some consternation when the ship steamed in and out of Malta Harbour." It certainly must have frightened some of the natives at Malta when this man-less battleship was manoeuvred by wireless.