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The mellow, vibrant sound of the cimbalom, a rare 15th century forerunner of the piano, will be introduced by the orchestra and band on their 1957 road tour beginning Monday. Miss Charmaine Asher, instructor of percussion, will play the instrument.
IT TAKES PRACTICE—Miss Charmaine Asher, instructor of percussion, demonstrates how to play the Hungarian cimbalom. The instrument illustrates one of the first attempts of making music by striking strings. It will be featured on the band and orchestra tour.
15th Century Cimbalom To Tour With Orchestra
Jay Janes Seniors Farewell Sunday
The senior farewell for the 14 seniors in the Jay Janes, women's pen organization, will be held Sunday in the Student Union.
The date was set at the Jay Janes meeting Wednesday.
Deloris Mohler, Iola junior, was elected song leader; Nancy Fujisaki, Kansas City, Kan., junior, and Rosemary Jones Timken sophomore, Red Pepper sponsors; Suzanne Walingford, Chanute junior, and Laura Noell, Kansas City, Mo., junior, delegates to the national convention of Phi Sigma Chi, national university women's pep organization of which the Jay Janes are a chapter.
The Jay James will usher for the Louis Armstrong concert March 23.
'House Of Rothschild To Be In Film Series
Pi Lamba Theta, honorary and professional association for women in education, will hold a rush tea at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Home Economics dining room in Fraser Hall.
"The House of Rothschild" will be added to the regularly scheduled Hoch Film Series. Based on an unproduced play by George Hembert Westley, it will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 22, in Hoch Auditorium.
George Arliss plays two roles in the story about a famous banking family of 17th century Europe. Other stars are Boris Karloff, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Robert Young, and Loretta Young.
Members are chosen on their scholastic records, their achievements in the field of education and extra curricular activities.
Golden hamsters are among the most prolific of all mammals. Millions in captivity today are descended from a single litter of 12 found in a burrow near Aleppo, Syria, in 1930.
Education Fraternity Rush Tea Tuesday
The instrument is one of about five played in the United States, Miss Asher said. The hand-finished rosewood case was imported from Budapest, Hungary. Strings and damper were added when it was re-assembled a few years ago, but the sound board is original.
Difficult To Learn
"The most difficult thing to learn is where the different tones of the scale are located," she said. "The keyboard is chromatic in some places and then becomes diatonic. Higher tones of the scale follow consecutively on the strings for several notes and then the hands must be moved high up the keyboard to hit the next note of the scale."
Difficult 10 Learn Miss Asher learned to play the cimbalom herself. She practiced two hours a day for two years.
Sound Made With Mallets The sound is made by hitting strings stretched across the sound board with two mallets. For each tone, there are four strings stretched very close together. The tone of a note is more vibrant because of the four strings stretched together.
Miss Asher first became interested in the cimbalom when one was given to the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra as a gift. She played in the percussion section at the time. Hans Schwieger, director of the orchestra, asked her if she would learn to play it so that they could play Kodaly's "Hary Janos Suite" which requires a cimbalom soloist.
"There are no method books written for the cimbalom that I can find," she said. "If I should find one, it would have had to be printed in the 19th century."
Popularity of the cimbalom reached its height in the 1800's when it was used in chamber groups as an accompanying instrument. It is a Hungarian instrument. According to Miss Asher, this is the first time a cimbalom has gone on a tour.
"One reason why the instrument interested me was because I could find nothing about it," she said.
Kansas is one of the four greatest cattle-producing states. In spring earthworms emerge from below the frost line and begin to burrow through the topsoil. The West boundary, in Wallace County, is the highest elevation in Kansas at 4,135 feet.
In 1905 S. J. Serrell, Pontiac,
Michigan, traveled eight miles an hour in his auto through the streets of Birmingham, Michigan. He was arrested for reckless driving and speeding, and fined $10.
OLD MOTHER HUBBARD
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