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Richmond Daily Times
Richmond, Virginia
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Virginia's contribution to the World's Fair features a mechanical piano that plays delightful music with violin accompaniment produced by machinery, impressing visitors and outshining famous violinists, as noted by the Nashville Banner's London correspondent.
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World's Fair from Virginia, is a piano which discourses
delightful music with a violin accompaniment
played by machinery! The London correspondent of
the Nashville Banner, referring to it, says:
There is no mistake about it. We looked for the in-
dignant ghost of Paganini, but didn't see it. Every one
knows what pleasant accompaniment it is, and there
sits the performer, every touch on the keys of the piano,
bringing forth a corresponding note on the violin,
brought about by four fiddle bows sawing back and
forth at the proper angles, all in plain sight. How it is
fingered is not seen. I wanted to huzza, when I found
the "old Dominion" in the field "taking the wind out
of the sails" of Ole Bull and Vieuxtemps, more especial-
ly, as all approached and went away with a broad grin
on their faces.
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Virginia
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visitors approached and left with broad grins on their faces.
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Among the contributions at the World's Fair from Virginia is a piano which discourses delightful music with a violin accompaniment played by machinery. The London correspondent of the Nashville Banner describes it: There is no mistake about it. We looked for the indignant ghost of Paganini, but didn't see it. Every one knows what pleasant accompaniment it is, and there sits the performer, every touch on the keys of the piano, bringing forth a corresponding note on the violin, brought about by four fiddle bows sawing back and forth at the proper angles, all in plain sight. How it is fingered is not seen. I wanted to huzza, when I found the "old Dominion" in the field "taking the wind out of the sails" of Ole Bull and Vieuxtemps, more especially.