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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928.

MUSIC WITHOUT INSTRUMENTS.

A PERFORMANCE WITH ETHEREAL VIBRATIONS,

[By Dr. Emil Krüger.]

WRIT AGAINST AN EDITOR.

ALLEGED CONTEMPT IN THE "TABLET,"

A King's Bench Divisional Court, consisting of the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Salter and

In broadcasting, ethereal. vibra- tions corresponding to curtain Roche, granted a rule mål for a sounds are itung into apuce writ of attachment against Mr. like light to be caught up anywhere and reconverted into the Oldmeadow, the editor of the original sounds from which they Tablet, the official

organ of the emanted. This was the great scien- Roman Catholic Church, calling tific surprise revealed to us by the closing years of the 19th century, upon him to show cause why he Scarcely had the mass of mankind should not be committed for con- become necustomed to the marvel tempt of court in publishing a re- and registered it as a thing of daily forence to a libel action pending occurrence, when the civilized world between M. Leon Durand, Bishop was startled by the tidings of af Oran, Algeria, and Messrs. new mirnete which is nothing but Constable and Company, Limited, the natural offspring of the wire- less wonder which custom has publishers of the "Nineteenth robbed of its miraculous character. Century," and Mr. Carrol Romer,

the editor. This new invention is the magical

with

before

performance of Professor Theremin Mr. F. B. Merrimau, K.C., moy- the State. Physico-Technical ing for the writ on behalf of Mr. Institute at Leningrad. It consists Romer, said the alleged libel arose in nothing more nor less than the out of a series of articles which production of instrumental music had been appearing in the "Nine- without the instrumentality of any teenth Century" concerning the musical instrument. The only in movement known as the "Action struments used aro a species of

Francaise," Dr. Longford, 蝨 radio receivers with which to manipulate the vibrations of the Church of England theologian, ether transmitted by wireless concluded an article with a pass electric apparatus. These instru-age containing the alleged libel, Bishop of ments,

which Professoras follows: "The Theremin recently grace à series Oran, who lias been the busy ugent of performances

large of the Vatican adversaries of the audiences in Berlin, Hamburg, Action Francaise, and who lende Dresden and Frankfort, it is the his pen to the promulgation of object of this article to describe. the new papal idea-who and what is he?....Here is a Bishop The Apparatus. Professor Theremin had before who has misappropriated public him an insignificant-looking clicst. funds, money paid over to him for Regarded from within and from the maintenance of his clergy. without, it resembled a very or-The story is well nigh Incredible, dinary radio valve apparatus. At- and in the Bishopric of Oran since tached to the left side of the chest January 1, 1925, the Government there is a metal loop not unlike the has taken the precaution to pay frame antenna of the broadcasting the, clergy direct, since not only receiver; on the right side is a were they not before paid in full short bar antenna. The chest sup-but the Bishop drew payments for ports a lectern on which to lay the clergy who were not there at all." musical Beore. The performer turns the valves and begins. Just like a conductor in front of his

The "Tablet" on March 3, said orchestra, Professor Theremin

counsel, contained a mate referring faces his apparatus and, glancing to a criticism of the appointment now and then at the score, waves of Sir William Tyrrell as British his hands about in the air. Hia Ambassador in Paris because He left is constantly in the neighbour- hood of the loop-antenna and often was a Roman Catholic, and saying "The British Mission to the Vati- dips down into it; the right re-.

by the 'No muins close to the bar-antenna, enn is regarded And as he moves his hands, the Popery underworld as a trump various notes strike our ear-in card when money is wanted from in Protestant diehards, and there- inelody only, it is frue, but erescendo and diminuendo and vary.fore any public attack ing in quality so that we seem, l'ope as Britain's crafty enemy in now, to hear the tones of a violin, the sphere of world politics is now, of a piano or a flute, now of a Lrombone or an oboe.

Professor Theremin accompanied his performances with explanations

w

"Sordid Interesta,"

on the

ha guinea a word. We have never suggested or believed that the Langfords, and the Ramera have been swayed by monetary

very

of his invention. The apparatus considerations, but they have cer contains two electric batteries, tainly become the tools of With the help of two transmitting sordid interests," valves familiar to every listener-in, two electric circuits are started

Mr. Merriman submitted that to which radiate vibrations of two say a thing like that about the distinct lengths. Now the freeditor of the "Nineteenth Cen- quency of the electric waves in, in tury," who had opened his columns to this controversy and who was general, so high that the waves are Inaudible. But if waves of two now being sued for bel at the derent lengths cross each other, suit of a Bishop of the Roman they give rise to a greatly reduced Catholic Church, was outside all wave-length. If, for instance, the bounds of what was legitimate. frequency of the one is 500,000 and of the other, 480,000 per, second, there will be produced a frequency AMERICAN ECONOMIST. of 20,000 per second, which is

obviously audible.

Note Can Be Modified.

By systematically modifying the two frequencies, Professor There min evolves tones of any desired

RECENT VISIT TO MACAO.

Macao was visited early in April pitch. This is achieved inercly by by the celebrated economist Pro- the hand interfering with the fessor, J. W. Jenks, of the Univer- vibrations. The frequency is sity of New York. Professor Jenks lessened or increased according as is making a study of conditions the hand approaches or leaves the fand visited Macao before proceed- wave. Thus the pitch of the note ing to Canton. He stated that he la raised or lowered, and it becomes was much struck by the very, evid- possible, in this way, to obtain the ent signs of progress at Macao, whole musical scale.

which were absent when he visited Moreover, the timbre and the Macao many years ago,

He was strength of the musical note can be most struck by the development of modified at will. If the loft ap-Chung Shan district by the com proaches the loop-antenna slowly,mencement of the Macao-Shekki the note sounds like that of a Road, and thought that in the pre- violin, if the approachment or re- moval is made backwards, the sent Governor of Macan the Portu- guese had an able administrator effect is that of striking a piano; whose policy towards the Chinese By such and similar means, all

INFLAMMABLE OILS.

sorts of instruments may be neighbours had created among the imitated; a direct change, say, Chinese a proper respect for the from the tone of the flute to that of friendly aspirations of Macno. the trumpet may be generated. He thought that the port of Ma-| Of course, it is no casy matter cao would soon justify its exis- to play a piece of music in this tence and the port development asset of considerable. way; that is, by such delicate move were an ments of the hand. Consequently, value to the Portuguese, Professor Theremin has construct ed an apparatus whereby the manipulation is vastly facilitated. This contrivance consists of a valve receiver furnished with stop knoba (keys) and a large number of Variable condensers. They per- form, respectively, the functions of the keyboard and the registers of a harmonium. By pressing one of the keys, a. definite, note lo pro- The Canton Municipal Bureau duced; while a turn of one of the has issued a notification, announc- condensers modifies its strengthing regulations governing and timbre. The contrivance, ac storage of inflammable oils with a cordingly, resembles in its effects view to minimising fire hazards. an American organ; albeit, the

The quantity permitted to be sounds are produced, not by pipes stored is limited as follows: and reeds, but by electric vibra- tions.'

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the

Kerosend--Not more than 20 What will be the ultimate out tins in dealers' shops; not more como of Professor Theremin's In- than 4 tins in grocers' stores;, not. vention no one can say. Indisput more than 1 tin in private houses. ably, however, the invention con-

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