Mr Charles Coborn and the Phonograph.
Mb Chables Coboen, of the music halls, tells a good phonograph story in an Edinburgh paper. He was present at a display of Mr Edison's instrument, when the agent asked him to give him one or two ' records.' He sang the foreign choruses to • Two Lovely Black Eyes,' but when he came to the Greek one he found it had entirely slipped his memory. There was an awk. ward pause, which was put an end to by one of the lady operators bringing a cylinder, upon which the singer had made the same record some time before. He had, therefore the peculiar experience of being prompted by his own voice. No wonder Mr Coborn styles the phonograph • an uncanny thing' and declares he would be afraid to be left in the rame room with it.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 6 December 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)
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141Mr Charles Coborn and the Phonograph. Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 6 December 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)
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