PICTURES MADE BY SOUNDS.
Sir,—l not iced in. your valuable column* •in article headed " Pictures Made by •Sound*." 1 be;.? to mv that, this is no new discovery. Twenty-live year* ago I wit* uft-f'd the Ranis- 1 ! phenomena at my brother's house in England. I will not -a y he wait the discoverer, but I have at this distance of time a hazy notion that he had something to say for in that capacity. Tiro method of producing these so-called " pictures" may he different, hut the results aits identical with those you indicate. There i l > in the-** tine's extremely little in connection with musical art, lint m worth the name of discovery. Til' l pity of it all is that what 1-! included in that term was ever discovered. To-dav, with all these so-c.<l!ed discoveries, there is infinitely lev ; sound musicianship and fewer {food and eon-ueniious exponents than ever, 1 rnijrhi. with truth, and at. tho .-a mo time a kindly -pirit. add something further with reference to tin* effect of the many inventions m conn' 1 ' turn with music, but have already dismissed so considerably that ! dare add no more than that I am O.vk ov tuk ( U.'.j School.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13095, 7 February 1906, Page 3
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