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Fig. 17. 



— Sectional view of pneu- 

 matic sound box. 



Austria has had a public phonogram record office since 1903. Doc- 

 tor Poch, who recently returned from two years wandering among 

 the tribes of South America, brought with him many records of 

 religious, ceremonial, and other songs, 

 which are of great ethnological interest. 

 In Germany, although no public office 

 has as yet been established, the German 

 Anthropological Society and the Ethno- 

 logical Museum each have their collections. 

 A short time ago the Hungarian Ethno- 

 logical Museum purchased a number of 

 machines, and appointed a certain Dr. 

 Vikar Bela to travel through Hungary 

 and to make records of the various dia- 

 lects found there, in order that the folk 

 songs of the people might be preserved. 

 The records have been registered and are 

 preserved in the archives of the museum. 



Professor Gamer, of the United States, is reported to have taken 

 records of the sounds made by the West African apes, and to be able 

 clearly to distinguish certain sounds betokening, for instance, fear, 

 hunger, friendship. Pie described how he established himself in a 

 cage in the forest where the apes came and visited him; he held in 



fact a sort of school which 

 was attended by carefully 

 chosen pupils. 



The story is known of 

 Humboldt finding a parrot 

 in Brazil which was able to 

 speak an otherwise extinct 

 Indian dialect. The scientists 

 of the future will, as you see, 

 have more reliable sources of 

 information in the talking- 

 machine record. 



I have here some records 

 made by the Pigmies of Cen- 

 tral Africa, who were brought 

 on a visit to this country by 

 Colonel Harrison. If you will permit me I will give you a Pigmy 

 folk song with national accompaniment. 



This paper on Mr. Berliner's invention, and the recording and 

 reproduction of musical sounds, would not be complete if I omitted 

 to refer to another instrument, that now known as the Auxeto- 

 Gramophone or AuxetoiDhone, which works on a different principle. 



Fig. 18. — Valve of pneumatic sound box. 



