Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1919 — Freak Fiddles. [ARTICLE]

Freak Fiddles.

The story of freak fiddles would fill a book. They have been made of tin, copper, Iron, leather, glass and paper. They have assumed many wonderful shapes. Last-year, in Los Angeles, a blind fiddler used to play on the corner with a fiddle that had no body. A tin horn did the'work of the ordinary sound box of the violjn. This was the invention of a local man. A certain corporation making phonograph records in the east uses an aluminum violin. This instrument Is scientifically constructed and used by one of the greatest artists in making records of his solos for reproduction on talking machines. Even the highest priced old violins do not sound as one expects a violin to sound when it is reproduced on a record. This aluminum violin corrects that and the listeners sit entranced at the sweet tones of the record. The violin, itself, has a most disagreeable tone.— Los Angeles Times.