RANDS, BELLS AND ORGANS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 27 (Supplement)

RANDS, BELLS AND ORGANS

REPLACED BY RADIO RECORDS IN FACTORIES Times Air Mail Service) LONDON. March 3 News that the Queen's Royal Regi- | merit are using a radiogram on the : barrack square of their Guildford depot in lieu of a band is another indication of the many and often odd uses to which this modern instrument is put. says the. Star. The “Queen’s” are parading and drilling to this music. They have no band. The Adjutant told a Star reporter to-day that the idea partly sprang out of the use of amplified gramophone < records in battleships. Purely an Experiment “Our effort is purely an experiment, and we hope that it will be possible to use the radiogram ‘ for physical training as welt as ordinary marching, which it enlivens,” he said. Recently a German bell-founder of Munich invented a miniature peal of bells in the forth of tubes less than j one-fortieth of an inch thick and about jlB inches long. I The tubes are struck by a small hammer worked off a small battery and amplified to represent the tone of j a peal weighing 15 tons. | Dorset bellringers, in conference, have protested against what they j called “canned belle.

Wedding Music, Too Gramophone contrivances for churches are on the increase. Wedding music from a radiogram is getting popular because of the difficulty of getting an organist and choir for the Here are a few unusual jobs done by the übiquitous radiogram as narrated by an official of the H.M.V. Company— Sounds made by a real pack of hounds, recorded for a Drury Lane theatre production. The roar of lions in the veldt for a play dealing with South Africa. The noise of a crying infant for a heartrending melodrama. Records for teaching birds to sing. Young canaries are very imitative of songs produced by older birds. There is an increasing demand for cheerful records for playing ih factories where process work becomes monotonous. For Dancing, of Course At one of the offices of a big football pool the girls select their own records—mostly of dance music. Commercial travellers who sell intricate machinery carry records describing technical speculations and carry drawings to go with the records Politicians find the radiogram a great boon at elections, and we all | know how heavily the 8.8. C. employs it for “noises off." 1 ’ > '