Page 12 University Daily Kansan, November 18. 1962
Lawrence violin crafter gives cello-making a try
By DAWN GRAHAM Staff Reporter
November wind slips under the workshop door, but Rick Dishinger doesn't seem to notice the evening chill in the room. He polishes onto the yet-to-be-celled cello.
Dishigner has painted for more than 20 years, and by day teaches drawing techniques.
This is his first try at cello-making, after four years of crafting violins and violas. He has been working on it since 2014 and he wants to finish by the weekend.
"My working habits are similar whether I'm painting or making violins," he said. "It's another form of creative activity — a visual, linear, dimensional thing. Maybe one's therapy for the other, or vice versa."
BAROQUE STRING music drifts from the radio, almost inviting the new cello to leap from Dishinger's knees and join the sound.
"It's just amazing, the sound a string quartet makes," he said. "They're so doggoned beautiful . . . the only thing that can really put chill bumps on the back of your neck. And all they are is trees, you know?"
Dishinger said he became interested in making violins about five years ago, when he "played badly and absolutely loved the instrument."
"I had been around a lot of people who made instruments, and decided to
He rented a workroom in the back of Michigan Street Music, a stringed instrument shop at 7th and Michigan streets where he still works.
PAPER, METAL and wooden patterns hang from the walls, and violins ranging from uncut blocks of spruce to tuned instruments line the tops of
counters. The unvarnished ribs of a new cello stand nearby, clamped
"That's the beginning of my quartet." Dishinger said.
He plans to make a matched set of so violins, a viola and a cello from the same instrument.
"I'm hoping to finish by April or May. I find some people and stage some sort of workshop."
Though he has completed only one cello, Dishinger has made 48 violins and violas. He averages 10 instruments per week for $1,000 anuece; his cellos for $2,000.
"Broken down, that probably gives me about 30 cents an hour for labor." Dishigner said. "But it's a labor of love rather than one of profit."
THE DEMAND for his instruments is to have he has sold or given away, all but few.
"I'd like to have one of these in every pawn shop in the Midwest in 50 years — plus a few in attics and back rooms," he said.
Violin-making and art are skills that Dishinger does not try to mix, though they can complement each other, he said.
"There's a very strict system for making violins. In art you've got all sorts of freedoms. It's interesting, like you can set them and then working with no rules at all.
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"IT'S DIFFICULT to figure out why I want to make violins. The world is full of violins, good and bad. Why don't I use them instead of this? I can't figure it out.
"I guess it's a matter of making one and deciding you don't like that, so you try to make a better one, and a better one . . . there's a real thrill in making one, in hearing it played, the wood coming alive."
Dick Dishinger, assistant professor of art, will soon finish making his first cello. Dishinger usually makes violins in his shop in back of Michigan Street Music, 647 Michigan St.
Shultz proposes new 'strategy for peace'
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State George Shultz yesterday proposed a "strategy for peace" for Central America calling for withdrawal of all troops in the region and agreement to keep major offensive weapons out of the troubled region.
"Clearly, no strategy for peace can succeed if those who take up arms
However, Shultz made clear that any such agreement must be based on "reciprocity and strict verification." Otherwise, he indicated, Washington must keep its security commitments to the region.
against their fellow citizens and neighbors go unopposed," Shultz told the Organization of American States "Peace is impossible without security."
By United Press International
SHULTZ ALSO said the United States could not remain neutral regarding the need for both Britain and Argentina to dispute over the Falkland Islands.
Shultz reaffirmed U.S. support for a resolution calling for resumption of Anglo-Argentine negotiations. Washington, over London's objections, voted to send a response to United Nations Nov. 4 and is expected do so again at the OAS this week.
his peace proposal also should be used to end foreign support for leftist guerrillas and other insurgent groups especially in El Salvador and Guatemala.
"FORTUNATELY." Shultz said, "not all of the conditions for war are present in Central America. Most states still lack the major offensive weapons 'that would be needed for an attack on their neighbors.
"Clearly that's only part of the solution, but it would be a start."
"That may give us our opening, 'Why shouldn't we encourage the governments of Central America to agree, all of them, on a basis of reciprocity and strict verification, not to import major offensive weapons?"
SHULT2 WARNED, however, there "will be danger to peace as long as foreign troops or military advisers are present" in Central America.
This was a clear but unstated reference to U.S. military advisers in El Salvador and Honduras and the presence of a large Cuban military contingent and other communist military advisers in Nicaragua.
He seemed to point directly at Nicaragua — again without mentioning names — when he spoke of the presence of foreign military advisers, which in one country are present in "very large numbers."
Oil field near California may be biggest find yet
By United Press International
HOUSTON-Texico U.S.A. yesterday announced it had confirmed the existence of a giant new oil discovery off the coast of Southern California.
THE CALSO-PHILLIES discovery is in the Point Argello field, south of Santa Barbara. The Texaco tract is west of the Point Argello discovery
Texaco's confirmation rate No. 3 tested at individual rates of up to 1,000 barrels a day. The well was drilled to a depth of 8,500 feet in 1,043 feet of water.
Texaco said a special platform was
Texaco, acting for itself, Sun Co,
Pennzoil and Koch Exploration Co,
said the discovery was in the Santa
Maria Basin, formerly called the Hueso area
Similar announcements have been made in recent days by Standard Oil Co. of California and Phillips Petroleum, and a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute said the discovery be the biggest for the United States. The discovery of the Prudhoe Bay field on the Arctic Slope of Alaska.
being designed by Brown & Root Inc
eventual production in the new field. (It could be installed by late 1985.)
The confirmation well is the third well the Texaco group has drilled in the area. The first well flowed at up to 2,600 feet and was drained to 13,250 feet in 788 feet of water
All together, six wells have been frilled in the two areas.
No one yet is predicting that Point Arguello and Santa Maria will equal Prudhoe Bay in importance. The Alaskan field, found in 1968, now is delivering one million barrels a day through the Alaskan pipeline system.
TEXACO HAS 35 percent stake in the tract, PennZoll 25 percent, and Sun, and Koch 20 percent each. The Federal was paid $3.29 million for the block.
HOWEVER, THERE already are estimates that the new Southern California offshore field contains at least one billion barrels of reserves. The same Bay field was discovered, it was believed to contain no more than that.
The new Southern California discover-
field also is being described as rela-
tive to the region.
Staging of Sartre's 'No Exit' turns orchestra pit into 'hell'
The Murphy Hall orchestra pit will turn into hall at 1:30 p.m. Saturday for a one-time performance of Jean Paul Sartre's classic one-act play, "No Exit," the play's director said yesterday.
The play centers on the afterlife of three characters condemned to hell. They must sit in a room together for eternity.
"I WANTED TO get away from the usual spaces that are used, with this play in particular," said director Bonnie Cullum, Lawrence senior. "Being in the pit gives you the feeling of being closed in."
The first 45 audience members will be seated in the orchestra pit with the
During the course of the play, the characters make discoveries about themselves and what their lives meant. Cullum said.
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Despite its solemn setting, Cullium said, the plaid is not depressing. It has a light color and a pattern of dots.
actors, Cullum said. Others will be seated on the edge.
"WE SHOULD BE AWARE of what we are doing with our lives, because we will never be more than we make of our lives." "It's not going to change when we die."
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