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...obtained. Mr. Burton has also discovered that when several metals are heated by the same currents, the softer are not fused more quickly than the harder; in other words, each metal calls for its appropriate amount of the current. Thus he is enabled to heat iron, copper, and brass all by one current...
...concert pieces; but we realize by how much they fail of reproducing the orchestral effects intended by the composer when we remember that the funeral march as it occurs in the opera is scored for six harps and has fifteen instruments in the wind band, and seventeen in the brass, in addition to the usual number of strings...
...time of mental reaction has been used, but it will be replaced in laboratory and practical use by the Bliss Multiple Key, which not only saves one-half the labor in making experiments, but records variations of one-ten-thousandth of a second. It is made of unlacquered brass without platinum contact, and so arranged that five currents run through it. One, two or three of these can be made or broken at the same time, or broken for an instant and then made again, or these makes and breaks can be adjusted so as to occur one after...
...best. Schubert's "Marche Militaire" was admirably played, with unusual conciseness and spirit. The club was not so good in "At Midnight" The playing lacked precision, the strings were not always in unison and the wood wind was sometimes at fault. The waltz "Preciosa" was almost faultlessly played; the brass was judiciady used and the trombone was well managed. In fact the brass and wood instruments were played with much better judgement and skill than they ever have been before. They were never obtrusive. All the skill of the club was called for in Grieg's "Heart's Wounds...
...first number on the programme was a Suite by Dvorak. There are five movements, a short opening prelude, two dance movements, a 'Romanze" and a "Finale." In the first movement the theme is introduced by the wood instruments and is passed then to the brass and this constant change continues through out. The strings keep up a weird tone which reminds one strongly of Grieg. The second movement has a very marked polka time. It begins in the minor and passes soon to the major on the same theme and then back again to the minor. The third...