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MUSIC FROM THE ETHER.

NEW ELECTRIC WAVE MUSICAL DEVICE.

TO BE DEMONSTRATED IN HONG KONG.

A Erench wireless instructor who į keyboard serves as atguide so the was also a musicin, has given to intonation is 'always' exact.

the world a new electrical sound- It is here Martenot's instrument wave instrument.

varies from the Theremin instru- While he was instructing Amori-ment on which there is no pos- can soldiers in the use of wireless sibility of such regulation of pitch at Fontainbleau, near Paris, in 1918, with the result that the intonation Maurice Martenot, a distinguished is seldom more than approximate. French pianist, cellist and pedago- Moreover, by slight movements of gue detected the musical pos- his hand, M. Martenot can perform sibilities of the 'sounds made by the trills, chromatic and diatonic scales, wireless transmitter and since then grace notes and nearly all the tricks he has been devoting his time to the of the virtuoso's repertoire, Its perfection of a musical instrument range can be extended to embrace founded on this observation.

eight octaves

The instrument, L'Instrument

Controls for Timbre and Tona. d'Ondes Musicales," heard. by an audience in the United States for Nor has M.Martenot been content the first time at the concerts of the 1 to stop here. From the left hand Philadelphia. Orchestra on Friday corner of the instrument extends ai afternoon and Saturday night, De-shelf; not dissimilar to a cigar box, cember 12 and 13, 1930,

on which are a set of little buttons.

The instrument was apparently succesful and has been established to the extent it is taught in many of the music schools of Paris. Alfred Cortor, the distinguished pianist and director of L'Eealo Normale, hus arranged for instruc tion in L'Instrument d'Ondes Musi- cales in his school.

M. Martenot's life has been devot- ed to music since his early child- hood. When he was nine, he and his sister Ginette, who is with him, and who has worked with him in the development of his invention since he first conceived it, were concortizing in Europe. For several years he and his sister have been at the head of their own music school in Paris.

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The instrument is substantially By pressing these he controls the Martenot is idealistic about his similar to the instrument of Leon | timbre, or color, of his tone. Thus instrument and its true purpose, he Theremin, which has already become the sound is sometimes like the tone Bays, is to eliminate the materin! familiar in Americn, but M. Mar-of a violin, a flute, a cello, or can processes that intervene. between tenot las materially extended the even similate the quality of the the mental idea and its realization possibilities of electrically control brase instruments.

in the ordinary instruments. This From the same little shelf ex-instrument has no hammers aud no led music.

A private demonstration of the tends n wooden ken, in appearance hows to come between the mind and new instrument was given by M. like a telegraph key, and by mani- the netual production of the music. Martenot in the Academy of Music,pulation of this M. Martennt con- on December 8 last year, following trols the volume of sound, from the rehearsal with the orchestra. The loudest to the softest tones. The instrument resembles the

small tone quality is exceptionally clear square piano of the 'Nineties, and is and pure. not unlike a smal; flat desk.

Exact Intonation..

There is a five octave keyboard, similar in appearance to the key board of a piano, and inside the desk-like apparatus are electrical tubes similar to those used in a radio set. These tubes set up vibrations which are transmitted by means of a diffuser to what resem bles a loud speaker placed on a stand near the instrument.

It is easy to play, says M. Mar- tenot, and six or eight weeks in- struction will bring the student to A degree of proficiency to the pro- M. Martenot's instrument while gress made by the average student of violin or piano in three or four new to America, is already known to Europe and was actually patent-years, provided of course, the stu- ed in 1999 before Theremin began dent be musically inclined his work. After the close of the war, the small quiet mannered Frenchman continued his work as teacher and recitalist and spent much of his spare time in the per- feetion of his idvention.

After the success scored by Prof. Theremin at his, concerts in Paris, in 1027, he redoubled his efforts and A sensitized wire extends across on April 21, 1928, gave a demon- the keyboard and it is the move-stration of his instrument to an elite ment of this wire which regulates of musicians and scientists in the the pitch. The wire is held in the Salle Gavena, in Paris and after thumb and second finger and the wards was presented publicly.

It is through Dr. Leopold Stokowski, who was instrumental in introducing the Theremin, that the Martenot instrument was taken to America. Dr. Stokowski heard the instrument in 1928 and was given a private demonstration of it last year after M. Martenot had effect several improvements.

Professor Martenot is now on a world tour and will most probably give a demonstration of his musical invention in Hong Kong in the near

future.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day.

(January 15.)

Queen's Theatre: "Not Dumb,"

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World Theatre: "Knight of the Burning Temple (Chineas picture).

Star Theatre "Protection." Central Theatre: "The Vagabond King."

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Queen's

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