Piano and Phonograph Combined 



t PHONO GRAPH 

 \ 



MANY attempts have been made to 

 construct an instrument that 

 would successfully reproduce at 

 the same time phonograph and piano 

 music. Edwin S. 

 Votey of New Jer- 

 sey has taken out 

 patents on an in- 

 strument which he 

 believes meets all re- 

 quirements. His in- 

 vention comprises 

 a piano or player- 

 piano with an open- 

 ing in the wall of 

 the casing for a 

 phonograph or any 

 record-controlled 

 mechanism for the 

 reproduction of the 

 human voice, and a 

 sound -blending 

 chamber in the rear 

 of the sounding- 

 board into which 

 the sounds from the 

 phonograph as well 

 as of the piano 

 mingle for the pur- 

 pose of producing 

 harmonious effects. 



The phonograph 

 is mounted in the 

 upper part of the 

 casing of the piano 

 and is pro\-idL-d 

 with an opening in the front of the 

 piano for the placing of records on 

 the machine. For the sake of neatness 

 of design and symmetr\' this opening is 

 duplicated on the opposite side of the 

 piano. Backof the sounding-board is an 

 expansion chamber or sound-blending 

 chamber into whicli the music from the 

 phonograph is carried In' means of a 

 He.\ible sound-conduit leading from the 

 phonograph to the sound-chamber. 



The lower ends of the sound-chamber 

 converge downward and at the lower- 

 most extremity an outlet is provided 

 in the shape of a horn attached to the 

 front casing of the piano, with its open- 

 ing closed by lattice work or a screen. 

 The conduit, passage-way, sound-blend- 



(SOUNO 



c ondu it) 



(SOUND 

 PASSA&e) 



: faPANSION 

 < CHAMBER) 



The piano and phonograph are made to 

 play together in the same musical time 



ing chamber and horn taken together 

 constitute a sound-conducting passage. 

 In operation a record is placed upon 

 the phonograph, which is wound through 

 the doors. The per- 

 forated music-sheet 

 is placed with the 

 mechanism of the 

 piano and the in- 

 struments are ready 

 to play. The phon- 

 ograph is started 

 and with it the 

 piano, both of them 

 by hand in the usu- 

 al manner, care be- 

 ing taken to start 

 the piano so that it 

 will commence play- 

 ing as nearly as 

 possible at a certain 

 point with the phon- 

 ograph. The music 

 having begun, the 

 musical time of the 

 piano is adjusted 

 by means of a 

 tempo-lever to ac- 

 cord with the musi- 

 cal time of the 

 phonograph. Thus 

 the two instruments 

 arc made to pla>- to- 

 gether in the same 

 musical time. 



(SOUMOINS 

 BOARD) 



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Curious Set of Features Are New 

 Markings on Mars 

 PERCI\AL LOWELL an- 

 nounces from his Flagstaff Ob- 

 servatory that a curious set of features, 

 secondary to the main canal network, 

 have become apparent on Mars. Within 

 some of the polygons made by the inter- 

 sections of the larger canals a tiny dot 

 has been descried, joined to a corner and 

 to the sides of the polygon by lines so 

 slender they usually appear as a string 

 of minute beads. The effect is of a 

 centrally-wo\'en web, spun within the 

 borders of the polygon, of a more minute 

 order of tenuity than the polygon it.self. 

 These details are so minute as to sug- 

 gest a new order of Martian markings. 



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