The Argosy, October 1906 — page 215: what you’re looking at

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Direct from our to your own Home. THE ARGOSY—ADVERTISING SECTION. Let Us Send You this Two-Horn DUPLE Phonograph on Trial Factory : = = y= IS inches by 14 by 10 inches high. Double Volume of Sound. ERE is the explanation of the Duplex principle: H When you hita tin pan witha stick, which side of the tin pan gives forth the noise? Why, both sides, of course. If you collect the waves from one side of the vibrating pan, you get only half the noise. That’s plain, isn’t it ? Well, the same thing holds true of the diaphragm of a phonograph. In every talking machine made heretofore, one-half of the sound waves were wasted. You got just one-half the sound that the diaphragm made—the rest was lost. The Duplex is the first and the only phonograph to collect the vibrations and get all the sound from both sides of the diaphragm. Because the reproducer or sound box of the Duplex has two vibrating diaphragms and two horns (as you see) to amplify the sound from both sides of both diaphragms. The Duplex, therefore, gives you all the music pro- duced—with any other you lose one-half. Compare the volume of sound produced by it with the volume of any other—no matter what its price—and hear for yourself. Purer, Sweeter Tone. UT that is not all, by any means. B For the Duplex Phonograph not only produces more music—a greater volume—but the tone is clearer, sweeter, purer and more nearly like the original than is produced by any other mechanical means. By using two diaphragms in the Duplex we are able to dispense entirely with all springs in the reproducer. The tension spring used in the old style reproducers to jerk the diaphragm back into position each time it vibrates, by its jerking pull roughens the fine wave groove in the record, and that causes the squeaking, squawking, harsh, metallic sound that sets your teeth on edge when you hear the old style phonograph. In the Duplex the wave grooves of the record remain perfectly smooth—there is nothing to roughen them —and the result is an exact reproduction of the original sound. As a speciai guarantee against the presence of harsh- ness resulting from vibration, the points of contact be- tween the horns and reproducer are protected by rubber, —an exclusive feature of the “uplex Phonograph. Write today for catalog and full particulars of our FREE trial offer. SAVE ALL the DEALER’S ZO% PROFIT a iz inch bell. in Phonographs the sound. diaphragms. sounds. S7ze of cabinet, tallic sounds, Direct From the Factory. FE ask the privilege of proving to you that the Duplex gives a double volume of music, of purer, sweeter tone than any other phonograph made. We want to proveitatourexpense. Weask you tolet us send you one at our expense—under an arrangement mutually satisfactory—for use in your home one week. Invite your neighbors and musical friends to hear it, and if they do not pronounce it better—in volume and in tone—than the best old stvle phonograph, return it at once at our expense. That’s a fair offer, but it isn’t all. We save you in the price exactly $70.15—because we save you all the jobbers’, middlemen’s and dealers’ profits. We sell it to you at actual factory price. Sold through dealers the Duplex would cost you at least $100— and it would be a bargain at that. Bought direct from our factory it | costs you (one profit added) only And you geta seven days’ trial in your own home—and are under no obligation to keepit if you are not satisfied. You run norisk, forthis advertisement could not appear in this magazine if we did not carry out our promises. Music In Your Home. HINK whata Duplex Phonograph will mean to you! The variety of entertainment you cai command at trifling expense is practically unlimited. You can enjoy a delightful selection of sougs, poemis, piano, banjo, guitar, or violin music, short stories, anec- dotes or dialect pieces, all reproduced by the marvelous two-horned Duplex with the faultless fidelity of an instantaneous photograph. You can bring to your family and friends, in all their original beauty, the priceless gems of musical art, the classic performances of famous Artists like Paderewski, D’ Albert, Raoul Pugno, and Jan Kubelik. Or, you can listen, entranced, to the magic notes of melody fresh fromthe throat of a Patti,’ Melba, or Calve, and the great dramatic tenors, Caruso and Tamagno. . And, best of all, youcan hear once more the voice of dear old Joe Jefferson as, with :atchless pathos, he de- livers the lines of Rip Van Winkle so familiat toa former generation, With each Duplex we send free 6 seven-inch or 3 ten-inch records. You will never regret it. Please address Each horn 7s 30 inches long with * An Entirely New Principle —Twovibrating diaphragms to reproduce —Two horns to amplify and multiply all the sound from both sides of both —No tension spring and no swing arm to cause harsh, discordant, mechanical Consequently, the Duplex produces a sweeter tone and greater volume of music than any other phonograph and is absolutely free from all me-' The : Duplex Phonograph Co., 144 Patterson St., KALAMAZOO, MICH. | In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention THE ARGOSY. CORIELOO ~ (SO) ro . a