MUSIC, AS YOU TRAVEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 14

MUSIC, AS YOU TRAVEL.

WIRELESS ON MOTORS. A LEAD FROM: AMERICA. When will the Now Zealand motorist, as the American can, have music by wireless as he drives, provided, ot course, that his engine is not too noisy'; 1 Or, hundreds of miles away from the l.ii; cities, the motorist may stop his i car at a picturesque spot, turn off his | online, adjust his radio button ami ; listen-in at a ceaseless recital of music and events. Two or three inconspicuous wires are stretched across the hood ot | his car. The radio apparatus is at- j tached to his dashboard with an amplifier behind the front seat. For three days after leaving New York passengers on liners can listen to the concerts at the big broadcasting station in New York. On private yachts, moving around the summer watering places, the couples dance to foxtrots and tangoes played in New York City. The use of wireless in the United States is increasing bo fast that it is almost impossible to keep pace with it. Every little village now has its store supplying wireless apparatus. Seta are almost as common in the home as phonographs. Boys can buy receiving sets for :■>). The alert American lias induced the broadcasting stations to include SO much information about commerce and hicance that he tan now almost transact his business in his home sitting in a room with a wiroles's amplifier and with a telephone alongside of it. The air is packed full of miscellaneous information from stock quotations to lectures and from jazz music to grand opcr.i. Wireless is playing , a big part in news dissemination. The President's speeches —in pa*t days the exclusive property ot the great new.s agencies—are now nearly always broadcast and can be heard If anyone with a £10 wireless receiver. Electrical manufacturers are simplifying the apparatus week by week. No longer is it necessary to stretch a disfiguring antenna from roof to roof. A small arrangement of wires looking something like a giant cobweb can be placed on a I table and all the doors locked nnd bolted. The words of the President. I speaking in a hall three or four hun ' dred mi)c>i away, still come clearly to the listener's ears.