Show typewritten MUSIC A proceed by which notes can bo taken down with great while great improvements have been made in the last few years in shorthand systems and language can now be transferred to paper with the rapidity of speech the writing of music is still an occupation of exasperating tc A musical shorthand has often been suggested and it is said that certain musicians have devised for themselves such a system which has served their purpose fairly well but any attempt to bring the speed of musical notation within even appreciable distance of the rate of musical production cither instrumental or vocal has always been looked upon as impossible it is difficult to imagine how it can ever be otherwise but none the less arc those inventors who seek to increase the facility of transferring to paper musical ideas either fresh from the brain of the composer or from the rendition of the artist worthy of com gratitude an attempt in this direction has just been made in the construction of a machine for typewriting masic says the fort worth gazette the machine looks like an ordinary typewriting machine after which it is modeled the frame key r levers type bars and carriage being retained various arc made BO as to adapt the instrument to the change of notation the carriage being shifted endwise only for the different lines octaves or notes and the paper is fed forward with each stroke of the type the machine is intended cither to be used with paper already ruled or to write its own staff by repeating a five lined character |