Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1927, Page 33

OLD INSTRUMENTS " MAY BE VALUABLE Radio Has Reclaimed Many Musical Pieces With Unique Tones. this yve 1¢ Spring house cleaning brings to light a instrume the ash heap w to the and havir Broadc almost prominenc a host of ss will undoubtedly continu long a8 musical tools which ister through t 0 new qu S of tone can be discove or creat Le members of n tments of the National Broad ing Co.. who are responsible for booking of artists who appear o air from Static WEAF and V New York. of Wash KFKX of Hastings, ., have come immune to outlandish names for musical instruments. No longer can a performer create a stir by declarin emphatically that he i8 4 past maste of the bathyphon or a wizard with the cheng Instead. they ask ‘fore sphone that may b aker and decid for br odd-looking mu don’ te them hout first taki broadeasting the nearest studio ed over the air plenty in them g forgotten has dragged microphone it be to pla the stud in oud it he pro. to be artist produs pocket rument bearing seven bied nam \e states that a truck is outside n implement whose name corded in ihree letters. amused w when bearing can be r Variety of Instruments. Many of the weirdly nan ments are old ones. Others have jus come on the market, but these are usually adaptations or mechanical va rlations of ancient musical tools, Some of them have proved unsuited to broadcasting, but plenty of them have made established places for them selves in the ranks of instruments well suited to microphone work. At any rate, the program builders are al ways open-minded. They refuse to udgment until the mike has had inst f broadeasting of the celeste, been a part of every full symphony orchestra. The instrument consists of a number of steel plates which are played by being siguck with smail hammers, a deserip- tion which sounds considerably melodious than the sweet tones the cel produces in broadcasting. Today the instrument is being used by many popular orchestras in their concerts over the air. The xylophone, the marimba and the mbalum, all implements similar in onstruction to the celeste, have also been brought to fame largely by radio, and the vibraphone, which produces its tones from metal tubes rather than from strings or discs, he designed especially for broadc: purposes. Air Changes Music. Almost anything can be played these | days. Witness the sweet, swinging tones of a saw when struck with a valded hammer and bent to produce various notes. The cigar-box banjo and the “one-string fiddle,” made from a cigar box and a broomstick, in the hands of experienced players produce real music of a startlingly different character when heard over the air. Other instruments which have proved excellent broadcasters are leglon. They include the zither, a form of Irish harp, once very popular, but little heard of late until broad- casting came into its own. The dul- cimer and the harpsichord, forerun ners of the modern piano, are making new musical reputations, thanks to the microphone. Even the Jew's harp is gathering laurels for itself. The recent Russian invasion of the American stage brought with it the balalaika, a strange-looking mandoiin possessing a_trlangular head. Bal laikas arrived in the United States in all sizes and previous conditions of servitude and for a while they were widely heard. Then came a slump in halalaika stock, when the Russian in- fluence declined. Yet today, because of the effectiveness of the instrument over the air, the balalaika is stepping into a position just below those occu- pied by the saxophone, the banjo and the ukulele as a broadcasting imple- ment. The present status of the three last- named tools lllustrates what radio can accomplish. All of them regis- ter much more agreeably in a loud speaker than they do when heard di- rectly by the ear, and since the growth of broadcasting the kindness with which the microphone treats them has carried the three to a prominence they could never have attained in the same period of time through any other medium. Hawaiian the adven few people had hear aithough it vitar Aided. class is the Hawaiian its plaintive, appealing iding a steel bar strings with the left hand are being strummed with It s responsible for the ue for Hawailan muslc in some 8 or 10 years ago bas required the aid of the microphone to revive its popularity, The accordion is another implement which is liked by the mike, and at the present time it is being heard a solo instrument and as an to sev leading dance or both as adjunct chestras, The vividness which the lends to humming a whole family of musical tools built on the same principle as the paper wrapped comb with which all children at some age amuse themselves. They @ Known as kazoos, yazoos.and by other outlandish cognomens and they wide variety of shapes, but y are the same. When persons possessing good ey produce music of unu + loud speaker group of tools which 1 convineing the microphone origin music tin tie a known a an instrument neied biack, vegetable from takes its name. The members this family of imple strange shapes equaily microphone brought about in can from the commonly i the the made but all of them not displeasing 1 broadeasting been partly responsible increases in the popu of the harmonfca, another instrument which has become the father of large and varied family. Today, har monica bands are often eard ov the air, and when proper harmoni arrangements are used, the effect of the music is distinetly pleasing. There are others, of course—hun- dreds of them, probably. And hardly week goes by that some new Instru ent is not offered to the Nationul Broadcasting Co. program depart- ments for testing. Still the process goes on. New instruments are brought 1o light or manufactured, and some of them which suit microphone require- ments become famous through broad- [ It is | now ar | ical | has | What »deral Radio to be will the Commission do? riddie, the this question i fans &nd broadcasters want to a difficult one to ver five good new ¥ seems new number queries on ar Know. even n and known. ntators moves will in. the broade: when the names o but untried sumed by that among the clude the foliowing most first in | proble s broadeast x so-calied Ca back t Order aper 1U ting > lengths to s innels or stay mpers turn to their ndard wave e ing t nearly 200 stations which sed their power m to reduc w d Stat estimated ths otted the t ratin These duce the firs nationa radio authori cons I would tend to re considerably, and possible inter with the Canadian ve tolerated from our un July, 1926 by means w nter teps tion who | sition since wouid solve the complicated lie frequencies owever. There things to be done aliocation of the annels equitabiy ations on the i on ren air and the nee July 1 any nnel and now mitting they It seems ¥ > that the commis d the old reliabl taking them into sideration first: that there ap ar to be 97 old Class F fons and 209 Class A stations which have excel lent records and have kept every re- quirement in good faith, although probably tempted to shift their chan nels and incr their power many times. The Cluss Bs, it may be are the old high-powered sta them on the air four years and some five, without a single bad mark against them. The the sma/ier stations assigned the lower channe 1t aiso is noted in this list of 306 are found the most reliabie stations from the point of view of good entertain- ment furnished the public. Inciden . these 306 are the pioneer which spent considerable money ablishing radio broadcasting. they deserve would while the commission the situation and tries to figure out whether all present broadcasters couid in any scientific be given non interfering channels. Undoubtedly the commissioners will endeavor not to eliminate any existing station with the practical confiscation of its equip. ment, good will and possibly other asset: but they may have to, and many radio thinkers approve of do- ing it. Next wiil come consideration of the 233 stations licensed since July 1, and then the new applications fromn many of the 182 prospectives reported as having stations under construction, followed by further applications from o number of the 375 said to be con- tempiating entry into broadeasting. It is a tremendous task, and cer talnly will require considerably more time than the two months leews given in the law, but that time can no doubt be extended by the commis- slon if necessar. Possible solutions, temporary best, include a reassignment of broad- cast channels of ten kilocycle separ tion; seven is not sufficient. It w. tried out in 1923-24 unsatisfactoril when there were but 500 active st tions and all of relatively low power. | Reduced power and time allocations of two or three hours an evening might help, especially if a large number of the low-powered stations, separated by {at least 200 or 300 miles, were put on the same wave length. Another plan is to urge the consolidation of several stations In a single community, which has already been done, voluntarily in several cities, with a saving of con- siderable expense In operation, but this, of course, would require co-opera- tion from the stations, many of which are now in keen competition. Technically inclined experts suggest the widening of the broadcast band downward, but that has as many op- ponents, just as well informed, who point out that it would make many stations unavailable to the average fan or modern receiving set, and would encroach upon other radio service as- signments. The commissioners hav before them, but it President Coolidge derable thought to his selections from the great number of recom- mendations, and that the five men se- lected will endeavor to carry out every letter of the law in giving ail States and communities a fair and equitable share in channels and stations, with a view of giving Nation-wide public radio broadcast service. a hard ) is- known ‘that has given con- r Vice Needed, Writer Says. Radio is too infernally virtuous, says critic John Wallace in the March is- of a radio magazine. He adv “California A te Syrup” Hurry, mother! spoonful of “Califorr Fig will sweeten the stomach and thoroughly clean the little bowels, and in a few hours you have a welld playful child again. Even if cross, fiflerish, bilious, constipated or full of cold, children love the pleasant taste of t gentle, ia now ¢ index to what the | 1 cpen ar origi- | from that | v to their | As were | - radio pu tion from the commissioners. | s they will be relicensed tempo- | studies | Give Bilious, Constipated Child THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. O, MARCH 6. 1927—PART 1 adeast program direc e vice into their pro- i notony of present-day broadeasts. He fohn Wallace—has no ot jectic virt He lik t {an entirely praiseworth ion | » are many who con |sin. And to sin is to indulge in vice | Would we not all, then, wel s the intersper clous material in | cate | tors 1 of | mildly v | ning brc “Vice | advantage | tiy from t 1 the: Wal | s ed, th | Radio radio il quire d it at nd ly as we olutely 1 of viee devo is its g dyness positive dways of wh ation. flagrant Al obnoxfous h he boasts In the virtue nce its t quality it tive qual | ody-goudy very virty | i ile thin, a | same manner, radio’s |is a n ality [5dca s o completaly follow that r has no ities at all, no tendency either toward good or toward evil. In other words it has attained that reprehensible and hly-to-beavoided of complete cuousness he indiv { make written ¢ |event rejoices | scandal in | servation | thing vic pos state lual whose lot is to ent encounters articular field of e existence of some: ious gives him something | provocativg to write about. He may { Jump in right mervily and flay it | defend it, according to his lights. ' er on polities pot Dome scan may wax worth drama cr now | fronted by an a cerning which he | words, all of which by his readers. ‘The soclety has his occas atheart to provide | sational writing liscovers tha | bought off in has al over and wordy nd again is ronting play may spill an oc which he The con con many commentator on omal Countess material for sen The sports editor some team has dvance. All this, de plorable as it is, adds zest to the day'’s work. No possibility of the occurren of the unexpected faces your poor radio review Year in out ies the even and spotle | tenor of its ways.” Loop Aerial Benefits. Offhand, it would not seem lo that better reception should be with a than ical ad 1oop with a splendid 1e antenna, high above the house and fitted with all the latest in in- sulators and lead-in equipment. But loops have one declded advantage and that is their tendency to mir imize static. It has been note inside aertals pick s the outside fety, but it also has been noted, and with justifiabl regret, that volume and distance are cut down in like proportion. The in- side aerial merely applies the simplest remedy to static that i filtration. Less is taken out of the air and consequently less static, but ally, less of that desirable energy which the broadcasters are sending is brought in * With the loop it is different. e direction iy cutting other points loop attacks that it of course, that less ic than Here are selected, auto- out what comes of the compass. static on the nothing but sty from directions othe that m_which the coming. Signal strength, of is weakened by [ doors, but it is customary with sets using 100ps to amplify to a highe degreé in the set itself. This com- pensates for the sacrifice of wave- intercepting efficiency. The loop cuts out from other points the compass and gives the br t eners to come through with disturbance. Possibly some da will be discovered that there matic from The theo energy ir o interference side aerials in such a way as to retain volume, at the same time re- taining the selective feature of the loop. PIG SHIPMENT GROWS. 12 Increase to 20 Before Destina- tion Is Reached. PITTSBURGH, March & (4).—"Pigs is pi Joe MeCulloughi, railroad | freight agent at Minerva, Pa. A consignment of 12 pigs numbered 17 when they reached Joe. Much per- turbed, he had his clerk, Cliff Elli- man, verify the count. The consignee refused the shipment on the grounds the excess pigs did not belong to him. Joe called on officials here for help. | Before they could solve the problem Elliman reported there were 20 pigs. Joe then took it upon himself to change the bill of lading to read “12 pigs plus natural increase, total 20 and induced the consignee to accept to HARMLESS LAXATIVE All Children Love Its Pleasant Taste Fig Syrup” | harmless laxative. It or overacts. Contains no narcotics or soothing drugs. Tell your druggist you want only the genuine “California Fig Syrup,” which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bot- tle. Mother, you must say “Califor- i Reluse any imitation. never cramps ome with | obnoxious. | ional | will be gobbled up | been | cing the loop in- | way to combine the outside and in- | BENEFIT FOR RADIO - FUND LOSES $600 ] | [$2,600 Needed Now to Make | Drive for Hospitals Here Successful. Faced sult of i {52,000 1o \bled r pathetic pub effort 000 the only lizzard propor struck Wash serformance the matinee | artists at was defea) s | the Winter February 19 duled giv been sck | show wits because of financial proved to low to the committee. Bil pproxi Iy $600 for the Au fum and other expen > waiting to be pald the committee’s funds are complete exhausted Face Hard Struggle its orgunization in 14 has struggled for tunds | he public Instead | show, ther success totaling rental of incidental Ever since 3 | the commi h which to keep the 1 operating condition sponse to its appeal for funds never did produce sufficient amounts td the sets from one year to| Now seven of the tions are entirely without th their radio equipment, and othe have been bombarding the committe with repair lists. The in serve 7,000 bed third of the deprived of result of the produce the money needed to overh the sets which are.out of order or | require new tubes, batteries or other | 1ccessories. n nother | WRHF t h the “shut-ins” who unable d with the current Every day from i1 am, to 12| | are { events. { noon nates. ed the ne re read to the The expense with the of however borne Co. con: this by | operation being rocer Asks Dime n Each Fan. Roy Mark, chairman of the com | mittee, believes t if every radio |listener in the District will contribule jonly 10 cents to the fund, the commit {tee will be able to e fts detleit |and put the hospital receiving sets \ flest ¢ operating condition and | maintain them for at least another { veur. Contributions should he sent | to Herbert T. Shannon, treasurer, 208 | Colorado Building. The institutions in itte installed the set |lic Home for, | Hospital, Lé Georgetown Children’s Hospita E s Home Home. | herd, Episcopal | Hospital, Prov | Ann’s Infant Asylum Home for Children, Me National Homeopathic which follow. I | com- | | Catho- | mergency | Union Mission, | versity Hospital, | 1, Columbia Hospi- | Church of the | House of Good Shep r and Throat | Hospital, St. Fpiscopal | dist Home, | pital, Na lence T £ 2 28 s T wE S s s S S 3 S S S S S S T revised. night perform- | the | FEATURED IN RADIO CONCERT | s0 d | tional | National N R Ja Re H Or | University A institu- | Home use of | Scl I | zell T e The committee operates radio station | two students brought up to date—from U. S. offic IUBEY, REMBAANDT Yeodor Chaliapin, distinguished Russian OPrin » will be heard in the sixth of th oadeast Friday night. Aged, Boys, Gir the for Home for School School for Hospital, St. Asylum, St. Freedmen'; Lauth T Frainin H ran v terms of the will of Mrs. B derson, who died February interest in the commission lof W Anderson, 901 B | left to her son, BEdward E. Ande) The property at 464 F street west_is given to her daught nie Larcombe and Emma who are also to hitve the house -]m.d P onal effects. * street southwest is devised to Larcombe and premises 6 I street southwest to the three dren. Benjamin H. Parker and J. Turner, the executors hot 1 and 12 least, and after paying the son $ o distribute the remaining s among the three children. tic upp iseph « eid Hospital, Asylum Tospit lum, Gospel for the District M sonic John's Methodist Home iberculosis Hospital, Washir ¢ Orphan Asylum, Ald Association the Bind of the District, Home the Aged and Infirm. Indust »me School for Colored Children allinger Hospital. Vincent's phan Georg Indus! and ¥ Orphanag ome t for Children, B. Rose of near s lived 79 years on by The “world's smallest school” open- | Greenberry at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., with | ton. Ky., h: It is the Chaplaing’ |farm bought hool of the United Sta rmy 'S 4g0. HER JOHNS MEDICINE. 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The Radio Directory tells where the Broadcasting Stations are located in the United States, Canada, Cuba and Mexico, giving the air-line distances from Washington. 1t’s information every Radio Fan wants—and supplements The Star’s interesting Radio news printed every Evening and Sunday. Yours for the Asking asso, and Dusolina Giannini, series of Victor concerts to be Will Gives Estate to Children. SRIN business street, hol Honse No. 29 and 62814 are to s 11; C street north- Clea his grandfather her is Mrs. chl ¥ 2,600 pro the 150 FAAA KKK KA Ak Aok ok k Ak kA kA Ak AAR KKK A KA KKk ok ok ok ok kk ok kA kKA KKK AR KAk 83 " WIRELESS TO COMPETE WITH AUSTRALIAN CABLE The new beam wireless transmitters betng Australia by the | Marcont Comy the Amalgamat- led Wireicas pete with the vice : bly the rates England_ wi than tha cable rates from Trade ey ces of the beam s be in Melbourne, but t | be at Ballan miles distant and the re be located in Rockbank, n Melbourne. All Commonwealth will Melbours Are Key to Station Chosen in Contest The sixth station selected for identification for the ninth week of The Star's radio contest, broudeast iast night about 1:40 o'clock, broadeast “Just One— You" and “She Looked Lil Helen Brown,” played by an orchestra. The seventh and fnal station for the week will be picked up tonight between 1:30 und 8 o'clock. The contest winner will be unnounced Wednesday. Orchestra Numbers | | | erected in ny Commissioner The main Bathtub Sales Gain. The sales of bathtubs in t States has gone ahead by bounds during the last few y the total 1,600,000 a year. A few years ago th and ssales were about Installation of some calis for elaborate VYVESTA uality Batterie rices Redced You can now buy the best auto and radio batteries at the lowest prices in 30 years. Buy Vesta and you buy Value! Get the new prices on the complete line from a Vesta dealer near you. We'll give you his name and location. 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