STRINGLESS PIANO
INVENTED BY AUSTRIAN.
ELECTRICAL CONTROL.
TONE SAID TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) ("Times” Cables.) Received 9.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 14.
The Vienna correspondent of “The Times” states that a stringless piano, invented by an Austrian architect, Spielmann, was publicly demonstrated. It resembles an upright piano Avitli an ordinary keyboard. The keys have electric lamps, whose beams strike a selenium cell. This sets up electric currents, which sound musical notes in a loud speaker. The tone is described as beautiful. A mechanical device enables the production of quarter tones and eighth tones.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 5
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