University Daily Kansar
Thursday, January 28, 1971
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Kansas Photo by GREG SORBER
Professor Fashions Fiddles as Hobby
Grad School Information Available in Strong Hall
Graduate school catalogues and career information are on file in the library of the Dean of Women's office. 200 Strong Hall.
The collection of catalogues is the project of Mortar Board, a senior women's honorary organization, said Katherine the senior and president. The collection is also available to men. The collection is also available to men.
Miss McKenna said members of the organization had trouble finding graduate school books, and in fall term, Watson Library does not keep graduate school catalogues on reserve and the library in Green Hall does not have catalogues from other law schools.
... Blans is also accomplished violinist
formed, students who sought information on graduate school had to send for each individual catalogue. Students can now search information and check out specific catalogues that they would like to study.
Before the new library was
There are also files containing other information, including forms on financial aid, housing and education on the schools themselves.
The library has copies of comparative lists of colleges and universities for students.
Miss McKown said that interested junior should start an internship. She explained that students would receive catalogues they want so that they
"We fiddle-makers feel the best already been impressed," he said. "We don't need to improve our skills."
University Professor-Craftsman Whittles Fiddles for a Hobby
In his spare time, a University of Kansas,
Professor of music whistles fiddles in his home
workshop—a challenging hobby has nothing to
do with the push-button age.
The 61-year-old, Dutch professor of string instruments just put the last coat of varnish on his "labor of lair" a replay of a 20th century opera by Blaas or Blaas' affectionate term for a violin or viola).
Karel H. Biasa' hobby enables him to look to the past for his models.
He will unveil his fidel fiddle and present it to Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, during the intermission of a scholarship benefit recital. Feb. 7 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The fidel, a five-stringed instrument, is the twentieth instrument Blaas has created in the late 1960s. He taught that class at a sabbatical taken spring semester 1969. Blaas interviewed violin makers throughout Blass.
"I staggered from museum to museum gathering material on ancient string instruments," Blass said. After visiting cultural centers at the Hague, Lawrence attended a lecture by Lawrence and began constructing the fidel.
Blaas' bifal is a predecessor of the Gamba family of instruments, which are the forerunners of modern strings. Instead of "II" holes in the violin, the fidel has inverted "CC" holes.
He said that a fidel, which has a mellow, dulce sound, is an instrument made for a small room, such as a piano.
"If a string instrument didn't have holes, that would be like a woman not having a mouth," Blaas said.
He said that a fidelity which has a mellow, subtle
Blairs 'second-floor home workshop is cluttered with new forms, animal clothing, shells, guiding caster wheels, and a measure thickness of an instrument), beetle-back mandolins hanging on the wall,琴弦 backings
"I've always liked woods," Blaaas said. "When I was a kid I'd go past a lumber market like a cut in the ground."
odors of pines and the different woods get me excited."
Blias, who played the viola and violi for half a century and taught at KU for 20 years, has spent between 200 and 400 hours making each violin or viola.
"I'm having twins right now," he grinned. The "twins" are two violas he has started. One will be sold to Esther Shriver, a violist in KU's Little Symphony.
Two Lawrence musicians are playing on violas
Blaas made for them. They are Mona Heaton, Coon
Rapids, Minn., junior and Mary Boyden, who
performs with a city chamber music group.
Most of Blaas' instruments have been made from spruce or mache taped from the Black Forest of Germany. However, much of the wood is exchanged with other violin makers.
"Fiddle-makers like housewives"
"fiddle-like housewives swap recipes," Bliss said,
"and housewives swap recipes."
Blaise love of woods was evident as he showed the grain in a partially finished "belly" piece which formally the top portion of an instrument and the bottom portion of another which will be made into the back of the instrument.
"Notice the beautiful curls in this wood, just like the old-fashioned Tony permanent. Come up here some time and I'll be ankle-deep in shavings," he said.
After Blass completes the top, and back of an instrument, he fits the neck and finally strings it up. He can play with these instruments if he determines whether or not additional work needs to be done to make the tone more mellow. He then changes the instrument's pitch.
Blaas would like to teach his craft to students.
The University offers courses in organ-building, jewelry and silversmithing. So why not violin music?
KUI's violin maker learns his craft from the lattes. Bert Goodwin of Rochester, N.Y. who produced the music of Carlyle Frost
Blass, who graduated from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, played viola and violin in the Rochester Philharmonic Symphony for 20 years before coming to KU.
He now plays in the KU's Little Symphony. Faculty Quartet, the opera orchestra and piano ensemble.
Good Times, Good Words
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Students must apply for grants
and fellowships before the end of
the school year to receive of their senior year in most cases.
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TOPEKA-Calvin Williams,
associate director of the office
of urban affairs at KU and
instructor in French, Italian,
German, or Spanish for a
named Special Assistant for
Educational Affairs for Gov.
Robert B. Docking Wednesday.
Chancellor E. Lawrence
Instructor Appointed Assistant for Docking
and an effective administrator".
"An effective teacher teaching load has been arranged, and he has also been relieved of his associate directorship of school."
Williams will succeed Marvin Harder, a Wichita State university political science professor, whose resignation went into effect Feb. 1.
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