THE IDEAL HOME ENTERTAINER.
The Edison Phonograph solves the entertainment problem. This dear, rioh toned instrument is a source of entertainment that is never-failing and never-tiring. Classical music or rag-time, souea or marahes, minstrels or orchestras, or funny stories, are sure to be appreciated by all who cross your threshold. Without the Phonograph none except trained musicians can hear the ; musio they like sung or played as they like it. The Phouograph sings as sweetly and clearly as the cultured singer and- renders perfectly the tones of the various instruments of orohestias and bands in all their delicate harmonies. With a Phonograph you con make up your own programmes; you may hear what you please as often as you please, ft requires no skill. You can master its operation in five minutes. Perhaps there is a piece of music that you have beard, the half-learned melody of which haunts jou; or may be there is something that you particularly want to hear. Your Phonograph will give it to you as it should be sung or played, until you have learned—if you desire—and always just as clearly and sweetly as at the first time. The Phonograph is a most unselfish entertainer; it hus something for al), young ov old. When the wife is wearied after a day's household uares and the children tire of clay, this charming entertainer will rest the one and quiet the other. It will make the children and the head of the house want to stay home. It will play for a dauc\ take you to the theatre, to the minstrels or a Wagnerian opera, play rag-time, sing songs that touch the heart, and play marches that ronse the soul—all this between supper and bed time. You can bear samples free at "The lalkeries" (T. Dwyer and Co.).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8260, 13 October 1906, Page 6
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301THE IDEAL HOME ENTERTAINER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8260, 13 October 1906, Page 6
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