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IN OWN SONGS At Carnegie Music Halil 
Pittsburgh 
Madame R appoId an<J 
Laurenti in “Miracle 
Concert.” 
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number on the the ln «tial 
°f it her Jj ps ceased to m' the midst 
"'ent on. SIoh-k o but the song 
ished audience thnfFh*^ 0I ? the «ston- 
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forth to them as clefrlv^V 0106 came 
before. Again chr> c * ^ !l od sweetly as 
only knew it was The* a . nd the a iI dienee 
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(From The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times) 
Record Reproduces 
Voice Accurately 
Demonstration Given in Carnegie 
Music Hall with Edison 
Phonograph 
A demonstration of the exactness with 
which the human voice may be repro¬ 
duced on a phonograph record uas 
given last night in Carnegie Music Hall 
with the new Edison machine. 
Several selections were sung personally 
by Mine. Marie RappoId, celebrated 
soprano, and Mario Laurenti, baritone of 
the Metropolitan Opera Co. Simultan¬ 
eously the same selections were produced 
on the phonograph, and with a subduc 
lighting effect, it was impossible to dis¬ 
tinguish the actual voices from the re¬ 
production. 
The tones tlmse from' 
Edison phonograph matcheUt ^ u 
the living artist so J? difference, 
'was impossible to detec ^ ^ echo or 
The instrument producitJe voices G f 
Mme. RappoId ^ d ^ r ;^S n ^o?mal 
t From The Pittsburg Sun ) 
lingers and Music 
Boxes in Concert 
Vocal and Metallic Tones Unable 
to Be Distinguished 
A unique concert was given last even¬ 
ing in Carnegie Music Hall in which 
Mme. Marie RappoId, well-known Amer¬ 
ican soprano, and Mario Laurenti, noted 
young Italian baritone, took part. The 
audience heard not one Mme. RappoId 
and one Mr. Laurenti, but two, the phe¬ 
nomenon being accomplished by means 
of a cabinet which stood on the stage 
beside the performers and matched their 
performance, note for note and tone for 
tone. 
FREE! a true and educational book 
AN official of the Edison Laboratories (011c of 
x"\. Thomas A. Edison’s right hand men) has 
written a book which tells, without exaggeration, 
in a plain, straightforward «;ay, the fascinating 
story of Edison’s wonderful new invention. 
This book also tells about the beautiful English. 
French and Italian cabinets in which the New 
Edison is encased. In order that we might be 
able to supply the £>ook to music lovers without 
charge, we have issued a paper covered edition. 
Write for your copy today. It is something you 
will want to keep. Just write us a letter or 
postal and askforthebook‘‘Edisouaud Music." 
THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc. 
ORANGE, N. J. 
Baffled! 
D O you want an exact and guaranteed duplicate 
of the phonograph that made musical Pitts¬ 
burgh gasp with astonishment. Read below what 
happened at Pittsburgh, but first fix in your mind 
that for the modest price of $295 you can own an 
exact duplicate of the wonderful instrument used 
at Pittsburgh. Fix in your mind that 
the Edison dealer will 
guarantee it 
without question or quibble-to be able to sustain 
precisely the’same test as the test made at Pittsburgh. 
On the night of September 30th, two thousand 
and six hundred critical Pittsburgh music lovers 
gathered at Carnegie Hall to learn whether it is 
true that Thomas A. Edison’s new phonograph 
sings and plays so naturally that the human ear can 
not tell whether it is listening to the phonograph or 
to living artists. Read what the Pittsburgh news¬ 
papers said next day. 
Edison spent three million dollars in cold cash on experi¬ 
mental work to produce the first Official Laboratory Model. 
The instrument used at Pittsburgh was a duplicate of the original 
three million dollar model. The Edison dealer in your town also 
has exact duplicates of it and will guarantee them to be capable 
of doing everything that was done by the instrument used at 
Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, on September fc 30th, 1919. 
The best is not too good for you. Hear the New Edison; 
investigate the tests (4000 in all), similar to the Pittsburgh test, 
that have been made in every large city from Maine to California 
by fifty great singers and instrumentalists, before audiences 
aggregating more than three million people. 
Go to the Edison dealer's store and ask him to let you hear 
The Official Laboratory Model of 
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