Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-07-04 | Page 2 | May Find "Lost Chord" with Piano Typewriter

MAY FIND lOST CHORD WITH PIANO TYPEWRITER t BUFFALO July 4 A 4 A Buffalo boy Is la the Inventor of 01 what he calls the piano piano- typewriter a machine that thal writes what whal io Is played on the piano He lie Is Paul of or 40 Seventh street Th The contrivance ance Is patented and If his plans are re carried out a n s factory will be built In Rochester soon to make the type type- writers He lie Is confident he has bas succeeded succeeded suc sue 1 In accomplishing what man many men have failed to do It Is 15 designed to print In the conventional conventional conventional conven conven- music characters just what Is 19 played laed on the piano to which It Is at at- at t. A lever Jever OS to pu put t the tho mechanism Into operation Then turning another lever le to put the time lIme beater eater Into the same time the piece Is to be played nothing remains to bedone be bedone bedone done but to play the piece The machine la is designed to aid arrangers arrangers ar nr- ar- ar rangers of or music for or bands an and orches orches- tras Composers too would find It a n great preat aid ald But perhaps p the greatest result the machine would accomplish would be he to preserve Improvisations especially tho those c of the tho great players ortho of or tho world B By It feats Cents of or manual dexterity would be he recorded PO so that the sheet music mule of Just what he played could he be published cheaply With the tho true ors improvisors one can read readily II see the possibilities It will catch the tho spontaneous outbursts of or melody that so often otten result when one toys with the keys kers for In Inspiration It will give to the world harmony the mu music lc of or tho the soul untarnished by hy an any evidence of or studied arrangement It Would recover the lost chord