NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 113, 31 August 1876, Page 2

NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

The Paris correspondent of The Tims Tuesday writes: —"A rather numtic company met on Saturday afternoon the house of M. Frederic Kastner, iiit Rue de Clichy, to witness his experimei with a strange invention of his -which calls the ' Pyrophone.' The ' Pyroplioj as its name indicates, is an histrume which produces sounds by means of j jets. It had long been known that flan emit sounds, and M. Kastner himself I tried experiments in London ; but yest day the special public found tlie selves in the presence of an aim complete instrument composed of a sa of glass tubes similar to organ pipes different lengths and dimensions, in vrhi gas jets were burning and which plaj some very powerful and very moving » cecmx. The difficulty of the invent consisted, of course, in regularising i jets. The theory is this : —When an solated gas jets produces a sound,; have only to bring another similar near to make the sound cease. Knaster, then, has invented a contrij which open and shuts like the Ad of a hand of which eacli one slic allow a jet to escape. When fingers are extended the sound is; duced; when they are closed approached to each other the so: ceases. He next regulated the fors the sound by the dimensions of the tu and by the height at which the jets! placed in the tubes. The audience still more astounded at suddenly ha the gaseliers placed in the centre of room, and set in motion by invisible! trie wires, execute " God Save the Qui in sonorous and penetrating tones, invention is still in a rudimentary! but I hasten to call attention to it te it seems to me destined to produce a; sensation when it shall have receive: improvements which will certainly It troduced into it." Ej