Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-23 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

Freaks Freals and Oddities ties In Science News News- N a 71 A new electrical musical instrument using a keyboard key U board and giving givin musical effects of either piano or organ type has seen been demonstrated d before several leading pianists who have expressed satisfaction over Its ts performance The new instrument looks much lIke Ike a small grand piano It produces its sounds as a aMano piano Mano docs does by striking on strings But Instead of having hav- hav big ing ng a sounding-board sounding like a piano it puts the notes through an electrical translating amplifying and re reproducing reproducing re- re producing apparatus It may be he played as a plane piano or as an organ A wide range of quality may mav be obtained ob- ob tamed in either cither o of these and in addition there arca arc are area a a number of or other interesting musical effects such as tone swell after key depression The new instrument instrument Instrument ment gives dynamic control of tone by the weight of or orthe the he key ey touch in its organ performance as well as in ints its ts piano performance differing therein from regular organs