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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932.
ADIO.. ECEIVERS
Let us demonstrate
to you!-
The MARCOBIPHONE
SUPERHETEROGRAM
The Radio Gramophone
'without a'poor 4.0. Maine operated.
The "ELECTROTECH"
4 and 6 valves Table Models
A.C."Mains operated
with attachment for
Gramophone pickup.
RADIO
WIRELESS AIDS TO
NAVIGATION.
NEW METHODS OF POSITION FINDING.
FEATURES
HENRY HALL SPEAKING.
A FEW WORDS FROM JACK PAYNE'S SUCCESSOR.
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sistibly. You see, it was written as who might otherwise be enthusiastic to bid farewell to the London, Mid-
a fox-trot and is a foxtrot, but you cannot boat foxtrot time to it, that is two beats to the bar.
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followers, and it enables critics to accuse us of dabasing our art; it gives them just what they are look ing for,, a stick to beat us with.
There are quite enough taneful numbers for any band to make-up") a good programme without having to play drundful" "encophonies.
land and Scottish Railway..
THE
am novertheless downright sorry to IMPERIAL EDITION
My relations with everyone havG been ideally happy, and although I am elated at the thought of the new audience which awaits me I have to resign my old job. If I find the se happiness in the future" as I have experienced during the last nine years I shall be more than satisfied.-Popular Wirsicas.
RECORDING AND REPRODUCING.
OF SONG BOOKS
Songs of the Highest Class
POPULAR, STANDARD & CLASSICAL
The next time that you hear it try for yourself, and you will find as I found, that you have to give it waltzotime, that is three boats. Some now alds to navigation and Hulle, everybody I am very Of course, in song having such a pilotage were explained in mail, happy to be able to meet you in poculiarity should have been week to the Royal United Service, this way. Here's to our friendship. | failure, but it was not, and what is
Rhythm but Not Noise. - Institution by Captain K. E. L. I hope you will like my hand-whan why I have grown to like it so much.
Naturally, if people are to dance Creighton, M.V.O.. R.N.,. late I have one, that is. At. present The change-over will de a terrible
to a tung it must have rhythm, and Director of Navigation to the Ad- there is neither band nor instru- rush, as I shall have to spend some the rhythm must be suficiently pro miralty.
ments nor music, megbly myself.considerable time leaving things in nounced for everyone to catch its Quite an interesting way of con- Vice Admiral Sir Robert Monsell, Such a strange situation is a won order in the LM.S. hotels as well infection, but this does not necessidering the electrical recording of R.C.V.O, OB.E., was in the chair.derful compliment, particularly as getting my new B.B.C. dhaceitate the series of grunts and gramophone records is to look at
The lecturor's field was a broad when it comes from such a high band together.
it as just a revorst of the process groans which can sometimes he board in a ballroom.
so many of us employ to play our onc, he covered a group of subjects authority as the B.B.C. I hope I
recorda electrically varying from the bubble sextant to justify the confidence they have
my tunefulness that caused it or
Fundamentally. tho apparatus the new helm orders,, Deepsea naplaced in me.
not, but one dear old lady in Manused is very similar, although, of Contralto. Rudolf Wolf & Kew, Ltd|vigation and not altered much, he
chestor confused my band with the course, the power employed in the
amplifiers is 54, Queen's Road, Central
Hallé Orchestra, which is conduct regarding ed, of course, by Sir Hamilton te. Instead of a loud speaker Songs of Ireland. 1st floor
which gives out sound by changing Tel. 22178
Harty.
electric currents into sound waves. Welsh Melodies.
microphone is used to "take in " sound by changing sound waves National Song Book. into electric currents.
German Folk Songs Golden Treasury of Songs. (Childrens)
You owe it to yourself to Baton to the above before buying. your next. Bot..
Latest.
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BRUNSWICK
and.".
MELOTONE
RECORDS
%
-Obtainable- -from-
THE
BRUNSWICK HOUSE.
Arcade, Gloucester Blåg.
Smallest Band to Broadcast.
The band you have been hearing for the past eighteen months from
Within less than a month of com- ing to London I shall be on the air, and for most of the time I shall be playing somewhere in the Midlands or the North at night and travelling down to London by sleeper" in order to be able to attend to things thero: during the day.
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Orchestrating the Numbers. In the brief time at my disposal I must not only select and sagage
hearne them.
I do not know whether it was
Soprano.
Tenor. Mezzo Soprano Baritone.
Bass.
much Elizabethan Love Songs
She wrote me a perfectly lovely letter of appreciation, towards the and of which she said," But I must say that I much prefer the tunes,
"Pick up" Working Backwards. you play on Friday night to those
Having thus obtained our vary you play on Thursday night,”
At first this sentence completely ing eletric currents, they are ampli. she could only have heard me on ing pulses from our pick-ups are he wireless on the Friday, and amplified. When the pulses, much could not so what she meant by magnified, arrive at the amplifier saying that I had broadcast on the output, they are fed into what is Thursday as well.
really a glorified pick-up working backwards.
shid; the position of the ship was aly found accurately by the stars,' Wireless was help, but could only be relied upon for position when the ship was near the wireless sta-Gleneagles, Manchastor and Liver- tion Wireless development was, pool is my Gleneag)s Hotel Band, however, progressing so well shat and is the smallest one over to come. The believed ships would soon be to the microphone, comprising only the instrumentalists, but also re-baffled me, as I knew very well thatfied by the valves just as the vary
Dance music has
Then there are the able to rely upon it under all con- six people.
tunes to be heard and selected and ditions.
brought me good fortune, since it orchestrated. I wonder how many The Booth bubble sextant and has lifted me from, the bottom of listeners: know how long it takes
to orchestrate a dance number} MeNoil's all-weather saxtant were the ladder to the top in nine years.
Not less than eight hours, and hold up as valuable instruments to
And yet, by all the accepted 1 must have at least a hundred and the enterprising young officer of superstitutions, I ought to have ex-fifty ready before I can start, broad-
'casting. to-day, and then the lecturer went perionced the worst of bad luck. for rather startles some listeners, but I Perhaps such a figure on to deal with the gyrosoapie my original contract with the Lon- can assure them that before very compass, notably those made by the don, Midland and Scottish Rail-long I shall want many times that Brown and Sperry companies; he
number in order to be ready for any omergency. added that Mr. S. C. Brown bad produced an "artificial horizon" device to deal with this work, which was still in the experimental
stage.
way was signed on Friday the Thirteenth of December; 1922)
And, worse still, my contract with the B.B.C. began on March the Thirteenth. But, to tell the truth,
My policy will be tunefulnem. Those who listen to my band now will know what I mean. Naturally I shall have a somewhat larger band and be in a position to use greater
A Queer Confusion,
U
Instead of the, needle movement chusing current to flow in the wind- į
...
Sacred Songs, fall Voices)
Obtainable at
ing as in the case of a pick-up TSANG FOOK PIANO
currents: flowing through the wind ings from the amplifier onus the needle to move. This beadlo, or stylus. as it is called, is arranged so that it tries a wave line on soft wax treated and used to pro- vide moulds for making the ordin
At length, however, I tumbled to it. Sir Hamilton Harty and his Halls Orchestra had been relayed on the Thursday, and she had con- fused the word Hallé with my name Hall. This was a huge joke among my friends for some weeks. to death at the thought of Sir
I am afraid we were all tickledary records. Hamilton Harty being a dance
I am wondering whether the num-volume where it is required than band conductor controlled by Henry
The automatic helmsman and the Messrs. Henry Hughes magnetic stead of unlucky, as it is for most compass, known'
the Holmes people.
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her thirteeh is not lucky for me in-I am now. But I cannot tolerate Hall But I am not so sure that numbers which treothing more he would have seen anything: funny than a long series of horrible noises.in it.
Personally, I think that dance hand conductors who play this kind so, for it brings discredit on the whole of dance rousic.
Magnetic Compass, were also spok- I suppose the majority of listen-of thing are very ill-advised to do
ers are under the impression that I have been attached to one hotel Actually this is not the state of affairs at all really. The London,
en of very highly by the lecturer, who went on to describe the way ir which wireless direction finders and rotating beacons worked. He working very successfully. in the referred to the Cumbrae talking Midland and Scottish Railway owns Bremen and Europa. A tribute to bencon, invented by Mr. Stevenson, hotele from one end of its line to the work of the Hydrographic De.of the famous lighthouse building the other, and it has been my job family, and said there was one to provide the dance music for all partment of the Admiralty showed
eatch in the talking beacon, the of them. the little-known, but vastly useful, fact that sound was variable in work of those officials who make fog as regarded direction and dis-
charts for the navigator.
tance.
1!
"
Echo Sounding.
The Jonus system of continuous course signalling, for the proven
Knowing Peoplo's Likos.
The number of bands I have had under my control in this way has varied from fourteen to thirty- three, and, of course, I have played.
"Antiquated: Helm Orders."...
Captain Creighton described our -present aýzcom of helm orders ation of fog collisions, now used in practically every county in Eng-
successfully in North American land and Scotland. "antiquated," A change ta" the
waters, then came under the atten- I am hoping that this experience direct system would, he felt sure, tion of the lecturer. But he said will stand me in good.stead in the come about before long. It would he felt that one of the most import- studio, because it has brought me be to the advantage of navigators, ant aids was the echo sounding into contact with so many different device, and he went on to describe kinds of people and taught me what
and especially pilos and the would find it quite ens to carry eut. Other countries had done so. Why should not the British sailor
the Admiralty type," the Marconi they like and what they dislike-at type, and the electro sounder. The lenst, I hope it has. intter was a German invention, and I cannot help wondering to my was a small bomb, about six inches elf what a peculiar world it is that we live in. Here am I, HOory to long, in the shape of a torpedo.play to the largest audience on the He finally mentioned the success This was dropped into the sea on earth, and only nine years ago I or the w,role's synontio chart, for a line from the ship and exploded set out to seek my fortune, not se so many do, towards London, but pration finding, was added that as soon as it hit the bottom. The away from it! For 1 am & Lon- although the advance of science explosion sent up a sound signal doner. I am a pianist and orches helped the sailor so profoundly in which was registered in a machine trator, and could see no opening in London, so I turned my footsteps to show depth: The invention was to the north.
- navigation, he still needed the being used with great success in kornest sense of seatonaship to several German cruisers, contand with the unknown forces of
Dancing was then becoming more and more popular, and I was for- tunate enough to be the one to sup- ply the band which opened the Gleneagles Hotel in 1994.
This band, I might add, was the second ever, to broadcast, the first
being the Savoy Orpheana. As time went on more and more hotels in- talled dance bands, and gradually
It turns lots of people against it
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I am looking forward to my now work.with the B.B.C. with no small amount of pleasure. Naturally, it is painful to have to sever connec tions with the hotels I have been playing in so long now, and to have
HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?
Here are sta of long-waya: and short-wave stations which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who has a mode- rately good, est suitable for re- ceiving sanh signals. Success in ploking up these stations also depands very largely upon fav surable atmospheric conditions. Readers are invited to add to this list should they succeed in. picking up any station not in.. cluded in either of these lists.
LONG-WAVE STATIONS.
WATE ..length (Metres) Station"
260 Maxila 277 Shanghai 345 Tokyo
Call Kilo Siga eyale KZLB. 1,153 K.8.M.S. 1,083 J.O.A.K. 870 850
.848
840- 830
353 Hiroshima J.O.F.K. 355 Hong Kong Z.B.W. 357.1 Bombay 381 Sapporo
ass Keijo
370 Nagoya 370.4 Caloust
V.U.B. J.O.LK 3.0:D.K.. J.O.C.X. V.U.O. 380 Kumamoto J.O.G.K. 390 Sendai 396 Dairen 400. Osaka 410" Canton 480 Manila
SHORT-WAVE STÁTIONS.
· STATION)
CALL BLOW
Kito
800 810 600.9 700
J.O.HK 770 J.Q.A.K... 780. J.O.B. 780- C.MB.. 732 K.ZR.M. 823
TIME (HONG KONG) OF WORKING"
4,484 Mon., Wed. Fri., 6 p.n.d's 'am 40006-10 p.20
67.65
Dobints (Germany)
80.12 $8.7 .80. 143.6 40. 41.3
A.P.K. Khabarovsk (Rusia) (EA97. Nauonw Mosco
A.G.J.
5,201 Not regular
L.F.N.
6,000 | Tue, Thum., Est., 8 p.m.
Home Perth
1.MA
6,890 Bunday midnight
7.142 Daily 6.30 p.m. & 11 p.m.
V.8.1.AB. P.C.L. HAPJ 1.3.L. 81.0.
1. 80.3
Singapore 31.8. Kootwijk (Holland)
Bangkok (Blam) Bydney 81.56 Melbourne 82.49 Bohansotady 21.20 Bindhoven (Holland) P.C.. 31.28 Sydney
I became more of an organiser than 81; just a conductor.
I am afraid. I skali miss, the
Taut wire measuring, gear and nature, which would always be with leader cable gear, the latter as ax- him at. 600. A good landfall might emplified in Partsmouth Harbour become a mates of course, stead during the War, were also deo of the skill of the pilot, and science cribed. Good charts and sailing might rob navigation of all its ro- directions were, of outstanding mulce, but sailor would always re-value, and he hoped a uniform sys main grateful for all the mids to tem of buoyago and lighting would avigation that science could pro-be arrived at ere long by all coun- variety which this life has provided
me with. I thought at first that trios. The League of Nations bad my signatory tune," Come Ye Back In answer to a question, the loc-set up an international committed to Bonnie Scotland," would havo turer said that the Lizard wire-in 1024 ta, dool with this, but the will not, and those listeners who
to be scrapped. Fortunately, it 184 less direction fading stain had Lisbon Conference of 1930 had like it will still be able to hear it been removed because the C.P.O., achieved no universal system, but when my band is on the air which optralled it, found it was there was little doubt that this not being used by ships for would be brought about era long. THAKİNE "VOLLEY again that could Patent logs were considered in
dzre.
That Hignatory Tuna,
have given this number ap, not be
be used when required, was eluding Forbes, Pitometer, Sal and cause. I wrote it, but because it was placed it Land's End, and that Cheraikeef. would prove sufficient.
The last named was one of those curious freaks that (Continued on precious" "Column:} somehow draw one's affection irre-!
7,810 Not regular
7,780 Daily 1 p..
"
· 8,108 | Tust, & Fri, 9 pun-1 Amu „[0,280 || Not regular lesi
9,608 Not regular
W.3.X.A.F. 9,580 | Dally 1 azila
W.LXO.
0,620 | Fri, 3 am, Sat. 3 am. & 10 am.. 9,590 Not regular
0,677 | Midnight daily.
Midnight Sam. daily.
7.30 pin. & a sm, dally, groept
Saturday and Sunday
127.0.
Nairobi (Kenya)
29.6 27,6
Sydney
1.M.E.
10,620 Not regular
26.53
Bandoeng Chelmsford (England) | 5.8.W.
P.LE
11,020
11,761
240
Manila 28.85 Schenectady 18.88 Besdoung
KLIE
12,240 Nightly
12,860 m, Wad., Fri, Sat.
Kootwijk (Holland).
174
10.0
Bandosag Bangkok
200
18.8
Kootwijk (Holland)
P.C.X.
18.74
Bandong
F.LE
19,220 | Daily 6,807 p.m.
15.5
Nancy (France)
19,851 | Daily 8 2,10,
10.08
Pittsburg
W.B.X.X:
21640 Not regular
PLOMA
P.C.L.
H.S.I.P.J.
10,102 | Daily 6:20 p.m. to midnight
16,004 Daily 7 pm
17,280 Daily 8 p.m. to midnight
17,761 Bundays 7 pm & midnight
|18,404|| Each afternoon.
[Allowanien muni be made for "summer-time ? in zooat Baro- pean countries, which is one hour ahead of trus time]
LOUD-SPEAKING ON 80 VOLTS. HT.
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It is usually taken for granted that for undistorted loudspeaker results, avien
small room strength, it is necessary to have at the very least 100 volts H.T. | In the normal way this is, of course, quite true.
It is impossible to keep the needle of A milliammoter in the plate of an ordinary power valve still it a lower voltage is employed (unless results are cat down so that. they are too weak to be useful), But it is quite surprising what good results can be obtained with. a B-volt; pentode valve of the or- dinary small type.
COMPANY.
8, Des Voeux Road, Central (Entrance Ice House Street) Telephone 24848
‹ JUST ARRIVED
MARCONIPHONE and B.T.H. PICK-UPS
Latest Models
Also B.T.H. "K.K."
PERMANENT MAGNET
LOUDSPEAKERS
at.. HOME LIST PRICES Rudolf Wolff Kew, Ltd. 51, "Queen's Road Central. 1st Floor
Small H.T. Battery Suitable, As a rule all pentode valves are looked upon 28, requiring much H.T: current and usually high H.T. voltages. In spite of this it is poi- sible with a small peatode, valve to get ordinary room loudspeaker strength with only 60 yolts HT and that without any appreciablo kicking of the milliammeter needle. The connections to employ are those "normally employed with pentode valve, the extra terminal being taken direct to the 00-volt. tap. Due to the lower H.T. voltage TO-DAY'S
than usual, the current consumed is much less, with the result that' the valve becomes a proposition, quito suitable for a moderate capa city dry H.T. battery.
Song "After a Million Dreams."!
John Boles (Tenor):-22230. Accordion Solo Florette P.
Frosini.--V -87.
Tel. 22178
WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY ZBW. ON
355 METRES.
11 to 11.30 am-Stock quotations, 11.30. 8. Chinese programme, When It's Spring Victor records.
12,30 p.m.-European programme at time in the Rockies."-Tivoli Novelty Orchestra.-7-60.
Orchestral
7.28 to 9 p.m.---*·
Orchestral,
An American in Paris (George
1 p.m.-Local time and weather Meglereport,
1.30 pm-Bugby Press news, meil
notice, etc.
|9 p.m.--Close down.
to 8 p.m.-European programme,
Gershwin). Victor Symphony 4 to 5.90 p.m.-Children's concert, Orchestra with George Gersh-Bongs for Children.Anna win.-35083/35964.
This Suite is by Special Request.. Peer Gynt Suite No. " (Grieg "Op. 38)Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens. --9327/83285E
8 p.m-Local time and wostuar re-
portr
8.00 to 10.30 p.m.-Chinese concert
from the Studio, An 10.30 p.m.-Rugby mid-day Press
nows..
10.33 pm--Close down
Alf records in the above European programmes are supplied by Messr Taeng Hook Piano, Co.
become available for broadcast ing, they will when possible, be included between 7.30 and 8 pime. on the broadcast programmes.
Howard with piano accompanis ment by Myrtle C. Eaver. 20442
Songs for Children."Olive Kline (Soprano).
5.20 to 7 p.m. (approx);
The Cheat from the King Theatre by courtesy
management p.m.took quotations, mai
tice, ote
7.05 to 7.28 p. TODA
A Variety R Orchestral Star Dust-Victor
Salon Orchestra 22548. Song Watching any Dreams Go
#diennie
organ?" Holo Dinah.6396
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