{"id":147,"date":"2016-01-02T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=147"},"modified":"2016-01-02T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:44:42","slug":"a-replacement-conductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"A replacement conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following appeared in the <i>Musical Times<\/i>, August 1890:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We read that &#8220;a Saxon engineer has invented an automatic machine, the object of which is to save conductors the physical part of their duties.\u00a0By pressing a button the apparatus, which is provided with an arm holding a conducting-stick, can be made to beat with the regularity of a metronome.&#8221;\u00a0It is a pity to be compelled to throw discredit upon the well-meant efforts of this clever engineer; but every musician knows that an orchestra cannot be conducted by an arm without a head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: Scholes, Percy (1947) <i>The Mirror of Music<\/i>. London: Novello. vol.1, p.409.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following appeared in the Musical Times, August 1890: We read that &#8220;a Saxon engineer has invented an automatic machine, the object of which is to save conductors the physical part of their duties.\u00a0By pressing a button the apparatus, which is provided with an arm holding a conducting-stick, can be made to beat with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","tag-mechanical-conductor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}