Topical Notes

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 52, 8 July 1932, Page 12

Topical Notes

"Luc. DI LAMMERMOOR" was appreciated in Australia as here, if the following paragraphs from an Australian’ daily paper are any indication :- oy On Saturday night I stayed at home, und by the manipulation of a little black dial flooded a small flat with the music , of "Lucia" and the liquid -silver of). Lina Paliughi’s lovely voice. Wireless did this for me, and was doing the same thing at the same time for thousands of other people. It was the first time I had been able to hear a first-class opera company on the radio. . According to Mr. Fisk, the reason for the marvellous clarity was "the new and specially. designed A.W.A. pick-up equipment, making use of a parabolic reflector, with a microphone placed in front of the dress circle." To the average radio listener it sounded 18.12 the singers were in the next room, or just far enough off to be pleasant. Heard It Back! When I switched my valve-set on to 2YA, Wellington, I heard the same lucent notes falling back at me from out that squat, square, polished piece of furniture. The opera wis being rebroadcast in New Zealand, and came back to me over 1300 miles of sea, finely reproduced. It meant to me the final miracle of wireless, and it must have meanf:something like that to about 10,000 others seattered from the King Country in New Zealand to Cape Leeuwin, in W.A., and eyen urto the Malay States.