STRINGLESS PIANO.
Electric Currents Give Musical
Notes.
LOUD SPEAKER TONE
("Times" Cables.) (Received 10.30 a.m.)
LONDON, January 14
The "Times" Vienna correspondent fttates that a stringless piano, invented by an Austrian architect named Spielniann, has been publicly demonstrated. It resembles an upright piano with an ordinary keyboard. The keye have light electric lamps whose beams strike a selenium cell. This sets up electric currents which sound the musical notes in a loud speaker tone.
It in described as a beautiful, mechanical device, which enables the production of quarter tones and eighth tones.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 8
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