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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 11, 1946
'Pocket-Sized' Piano Invented
Kapell had been asked by the inventor, Harold B. Rhodes of Los Angeles, to test the effects of altitude and climatic changes on the piano. En route the pianist said he found that the touch, pitch and tone of the Rhodes piano remained constant under shifting flying conditions. He is taking it with him on a concert tour of the East, Midwest and Canada, to practice on while traveling. This piano is the only kind so far practical for use on a plane.
The miniature piano with a range of slightly more than three octaves was first conceived when Rhodes, a Los Angeles piano teacher, who was at that time in the Army Air Forces, volunteered to help teach piano to convalescent hospital patients.
New York. (UP)—Returning to the United States from a concert tour through Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, William Kapell, young American pianist, disembarked from an airplane, carrying under his arm the 16-pound piano which he took with him on the 16,000-mile trip.
The keys on the new Rhodes piano are made of plastic shell cemented to an aluminum die-cast shank. This method eliminates one of the greatest hazards to the average piano—that of warpage and swelling of the keys. The case of the piano is formed from pressed glass fibers, the first commercial application of such a process.
Rhodes hit upon the idea of developing an instrument and course of instruction that would bring, in a minimum amount of time, the joy of playing the piano to even a bedridden patient.
Utilizing old tubing, plywood and string from a war-weary B-17, Rhodes turned out his first three-octave instrument, which patients mastered, under Rhodes' new system of basic chords, chord "sentences" and melody, in less than 20 days. With little further instruction students were able to play a standard piano without difficulty.
The army published Rhodes' system in a booklet entitled, "Sit Down and Play." It was so successful that it is now in its third government printing.
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A.S.C. Backs 'Dove' For First Issue
An appropriation has been made by the All Student Council for the first issue of "The Dove," student publication that will appear before Christmas.
"The Dove" was first printed at the University in 1925. The last issue was published in 1943.
The editorial staff includes Rhoten Smith, Deane Postlethwaite, Arnold Englund, Esther Dudgeon, Duane Postlethwaite, Beth Bell, William Vandiver, Frank Curry, John Michener, George Pyle, Virginia Wray, Ralph Micheener, Betty Grimm, Vern Schneider, and Betty Randolph.
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