Edison's latest improved loud-speaking phonograph will be exhibited in the Academy of Music next Monday and Tuesday "by Mr Or. Kelly, and should attract large audiences. Referring to the invention the -Lyttelton Times .ot a recent date says :-~"Sihce Edison's phonograph was introduced a very important improvement has been made by the invontor in the mechanism for recording and repro ducing sound. In the apparatus exhibited here two diaphragms were used, one for taking down the sound on a wax cylinder, and the other for 1 reproducing £t- By means of Edison's latest invention, both operations are performed with one diaphragm. Mr Qeorge Kelly has received one of the new diaph ragms, together with a number of other acces sories, so that he has now a complete outfit of everything required te use the phonograph to the best advantage. The new diaphragm carries two needles, one for recording, and one for reproducing. The new adjust ment allows any number of cylinders to be prepared beforehand, taken off when blank, and used when required. This enables a larger number than could h^y.e been got with the old apparatus to be taken at public exhi bitions. ... It is now much easier thaa

formerly to take records, and Mr Kelly is now prepared to take private records, so that any. one wishing to send ths tones of his, or her, voice to any part of the world oau do so. As all phonographs and cylinders are of the cajae size, a record taken on one phonograph can be reproduced on any other. Under the new parcels post the cylinder, safely packed in a wooden box, can be sent to Australia, Europe, or America for a few pence, and therefore ip is easy for persons in this part of the world to give their friends elsewhere the gratification of listening to their voices. Mr Kelly has obtained a large stock of blank cylinders from America, together with several new and ex ceedingly good records, songs, instrumental solos, and concerted pieces.''

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