Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1930)

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of course, refused to accept anything but the sets advertised. The store was agreeable, but the upshot was that the store delayed delivery until frequent insistence of delivery or return of deposit was made. The store, in several test cases, finally refused to make delivery, although the deposits were returned, "The Murlitzer copy was of such size and ran with such frequency that the limited merchandising could not possibly have made the proposition profitable. This confirmed the investigating agency1 s belief that the copy was worded to 'bait* the public." X X X X X X THEREMIN HAS FRENCH RIVAL A new instrument characteristic of these days of radio was a special feature of the concert given by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra last week in New York. It was named on the program page an "electrical instrument." Its inventor, who performed on it was Maurice Martenot. The French name for the new instrument is "onde musical." The manner of playing the instrument is akin to the methods of Leon Theremin when he plays on his electrical wave machine. "The differences between the two instruments immediately perceptible to the superficially informed observer are the presence of a small keyboard at which the performer sits or stands and the spectacle, at the back of the stage of two loud-speakers, which are connected with the keyboard" , Olin Downes, the music critic explains. "The keyboard instrument contains at its base the laudion*, or the part which makes the sound, later dispensed through the loud-speaker, "It is in the fundamentality important field of musical effect that this instrument disappoints us and does not seem very markedly different from the effect of the Thereminvox. There is the same general quality of tone. In the lower registers, this tone sounded something like a ‘cello. As it went up, it reminded somewhat of a saxaohone, and, in the extreme upper register of a flute. " X X X X X X X WE BOW low; A subscriber to the Heinl Radio Business Letter has been kind enough to write, in part, as follows: "I regard your valuable Business Letter as the most reliable and comprehensive resume of current radio news published in the country." X X X X X X o —