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Show StrtuiSH'x It:iml I'laya Into the riionogmpb. I It was Mr. Edison's express desire to ' have some of Strauss s waltzes recorded i on the phonograph as being one of the , most characteristic products of Vienna. Accordingly, tiie phonograph was taken to the music hall yesterday where Hcrr Eduard Strauss and his famous band were waiting. When the enormous funnel fun-nel hail been adjusted and everything w.is ready, the band struck up "By the Beautiful Blue Danube." Musicians and conductor seemed to be fully aware that they were playing not only to the world, but to posterity. The famous waltz has, perhaps, never been played with such purity and such vigor. Hcrr Strauss was quite impatient while the wax cylinder cylin-der and the tubes were screwed on, and it was interesting to watch his face as he listened to l ho familiar strains that returned re-turned to him. He followed every note most critically, and pon finned the assertion asser-tion that not ono tone bad undergone tho slightest change. Afterward a merry polka was played and a delightful minuet min-uet from o fitting quartet, the gentle, refined re-fined music of which was wonderfully reproduced. Mendelssohn's "Farewell to the Forest" came next, and a quartet of cornets, and the instrument rendered the loud passages as faithfully as the soft and tender ones. London Daily News |