The Edison phonograph monthly (Dec 1914-Dec 1915)

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THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTH LY Published in the interest of EDISON PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS By THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc. ORANGE, N. J., U. S. A. THO MAS A. EDISON, LTD., 164 WARDOUR ST., LONDON, W. ENGLAND THOMAS A. EDISON, LTD.. 364-372 KENT STREET, SYDNEY. N. S. \V. COMPANIA EDISON HISPANO-AMERICANA. FLORIDA 635, BUENOS AIRES EDISON GESELLSCHAFT, M. B. H. 3 YORKSTRASSE, BERLIN CUMPAGNIE FRANCAISE THOMAS A. EDISON, 59 RUE DES PETITES-ECURIES, PARIS Volume XIII NOVEMBER, 1915 Number 11 SUPREME TRIUMPH OF THE EDISON DIAMOND DISC PHONOGRAPH Proved Before Thousands That It Actually Re-Creates the Voice Edison's New Invention Placed in a Class by Itself Transcontinental Tone-Test Tour of Christine Miller r I ' HE romance and beauty of scientific invention were demonstrated last evening when a the aire ful of people listened to a woman as she sang a duet with herself. To listen to a singer ' s own beautiful voice and then listen to it reinforced by the rich and superb tones of that voic?, caught and held forever by the great Wizard of electricity, was a wonderful experience." ■ — Milwaukee, Evening Wisconsin. MUSIC lovers now know why the This supreme test was made before the Edison Diamond Disc was not Officials of the Exposition and music critics exhibited at the Panama-Pacific from all over the world. It proved concluExposition as a mechanical sound-reproduc sively that the Edison Diamond Disc actuing device. They know that Edison's new ally re-creates sound as distinguished from invention is in a class by itself. They realize the mere mechanical approximation, charthat laboratory methods and processes, acteristic of talking machines, known only to Edison himself, enable him to Will you give this proof to your own pagive a laboratory re-creation of music. trons? Will you once and for all time place On Edison Day Christine Miller appeared the Edison Diamond Disc on the plane where at the Panama-Pacific Exposition and sang it belongs in your town? There is no way with Edison's Diamond Disc re-creation of in which this can be done so effectively as by her own voice to demonstrate that Edison giving a Tone-Test Recital, had achieved his ambition actually to re Contracts for the appearance of various create music so perfectly that the re-creation Edison artists, in addition to Miss Christine cannot be distinguished from the original. Miller, are now in readiness and can be nego