NEW INSTRUMENTS.
Music of a quality of tone hitherto unknown has been produced by means of a beam of light by physicists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The new instrument is played similarly to a paino, but photo-electric cells and glass discs are substituted for wires. It- produces synthetic musical (sounds, which, according to Professor . Arthur Hardy and Professor Sherwood Brown, the inventors, differ from and are superior to any sound made by a string or. wind instrument.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1930, Page 5
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79NEW INSTRUMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1930, Page 5
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