HIDING THE LOUD SPEAKER

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12650, 10 January 1927, Page 4

HIDING THE LOUD SPEAKER

How do you like the idea of wireless music coming from the depths of a rose-bowl? The bowl, I am assured, may even be filled with flowers without causing the sound to he in any way deadened.

if you object to the sight of the louil-speaker horn, you may prefer it in the form of a clock, set in a wide rim of deeoratively perforated metal,’ which serves to conceal the deep bowlshaped structure at the back of it. For tho “period” room, where the modernity of the ordinary apparatus may appear out-of-place, such a clock, suggestive rather of the Empiro era, is quite appropriate. Then there is the vase, set into a stand fitted with single flower holders; it is really an efficient loud-speaker, though it would appear to have nothing to do with wireless. If you would like to enjoy tho entertainment without being conscious of the “works,” the loud-speaker may be effectually hidden under a large electric light shade. The same control will function for the wireless as for the 'amp, but naturally not at the same time. A wire netting fixed over the top of a. loud-speaker offers a rather more sympathetic appearance than the yawning mouth usually presented ; or tho amateur fretwork carver may he able to cont-ivo a wcoden front which will be much moro decorative. -~>L.G.S.