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sung into it through a double mouthpiece by Mr. Spagnoletti 
and Mr. Sedley Taylor. The result would certainly not 
make the musical reputation of either gentleman, did it 
stand upon no intrinsic merits of its own, but it was a re- 
markable experiment as showing the marvellous powers of 
which the phonograph of the future may be capable. At 
this meeting it was further shown that when an indented 
sheet of tin-foil has been employed to emit sounds it retains 
its form with such perfeCtness that the sounds can be re- 
produced by means of it a second, and even a third, time, 
with nearly equal distinctness. 
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