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Show MUSIC READING MADE EASY Children Find It an Attractive Task to Learn Their Notes by Use of Electrical Device. By using the electric music teacher, children will find that it is an attractive attrac-tive task to learn their notes, instead of a dry lesson as hereofore, bo that they will begin to take an interest in music at once, and not consider it a drudgery, says the Popular Electricity Elec-tricity M. Pierre Gelis, a Pari3 inventor, makes the device which we illustrate here. It is based on the principle of using an electric contact plate under the music paper. By pricking each note with a sharp metal point, we make contact for an electric device carrying a hammer, so that the hammer ham-mer strikes a string or preferably a metal piece to give out the sound. Thus each note or line or space gives out its corresponding sound, and it is an easy matter to read a simple piece of music in this way. The device is quite an elaborate one for it is required to take care of the sharps and fiats which figure per- Electric Music Teacher. manently as the sign of the staff. But this is easily done by using a revolving revolv-ing contact device to shift over the several required notes at the start. To bring back to natural during the piece, we press on a button which restores the note for the moment. Even professional musicians will find it useful for transposing a piece into another key and this is done by observing the movement of the hammers ham-mers and also a transposing chart which lies before them. |