A NEW GRAMOPHONE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 30 April 1926, Page 2

A NEW GRAMOPHONE.

' lAIPROVEMENT IN THE CALD. ALMOST PERFECT RECORLYTNG . What can be. described, only ics a revolutionary step in tlie- gra%iipphone industry-lias been effected *by the His. Master's Voice Company, which has produced!.a machine.thi t has reached a state almost of per - fection in the reproduction of: al\ types of music. A demonstration oP. the. machine, was given in Auckland and proved a. great surprise to all | who attended it.

Tw r o instruments, one of a type that has until recently, been, recognised! as among the besit, and- the other a, new machine wore, placed side by side. Outwardly, there was little difference between the two. A record was played on the old type, and as gramophone music is understood at present, the rcnroduction was exceptionally good. Thq record was then taken off and-uut on. the new machine. The first bar played was sufficient to convince, the audjcncc that At announced! a new era in gramonhomc music. The music was beautifully clear, and with a much, fuller volume, revealing passages hitherto latent- in the record. TRc orchestral accompaniment could be heard clearly while the whole music seamed to. lose all the harsh tone that.has newer been wholly climmated from a gramophone. The record was played; amb then,' moved on to the old: machine again. A few liars sufficed io give an excellent demonstration for the music apnenred to be quite flat;

The secret- - of'.tine success of the instrument lies in the fact that it can reproduce bass music ns it has never been reproduced before. It has undoubtedly been recorded in the past, hut it-has remained I 'for the new invention lo bring it out. An instance of this was supplied by the playing of an orchestral record!. On the new machine all tlip bass instruments, could be distinctly hear, while In the old they resembled an undercurrent through the music. A song by a bass singer contained far more character, while a soprano seemed to lose all the harsh nasal qualities that could he distinguished on the old machine. A dance record was played, ynd it was almost-impossible to believe that a hand was not actually in the room. No new mochaniism is respons Lie for the change. The horn and! the. sound-box are made to work in complete harmony, and. the horn, itself, instead of being in a narrow' flat curve, goes right down and then comes, up again like a saxophone. This enables a better-distribution; of sound, and 1 is largely responsible for the greatly improved recording.