Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1952 — Page 6
PAGE 8 _ es ns Harlin’s Instrument Is Battery of Guitars
IT HAS six strings, is played like a Hawaiian guitar, © sounds like a Hawaiian guitar but is equal to five guitars | laid side by side. : That's the way Jay Harlin describes the musical instrument he has perfected after 17 years of research and experimentation. His patent, applied for in| 1947, was granted Jan, 4, 1949. General Motors,” Jay said. Lud every night after work we drove or only he pg Stmed "gute to F Flint to play for one of the old tar with tubular legs to support | Datker’ ghows. It was too hard
riment-|On us trying to do both things; * In fact Jays Bit expe a reg-/50 we decided to try making our
ular model guitar, [ving with a Bu ae . es ent's versatility is ey moved to Indianapolis in ae tnstiv i series of 0 oor. 1932, and the next year opened pedals attached to the strings by their own studio. metal roads. When Jay is play-. The Harlin Brothers have ating a number and needs a dif- tended and played for every naferent tuning to follow the ar- tional Shrine convention since rangement he merely presses the 1946. Their Hawailan Band is proper pedal and has the equiv- transported in the parades on a alent of another guitar tuned to gally-colored boat built around a the proper pitch, jeep. Named “Multi-Kord,” the in-| And Jay's super Mul@Kord, a strument was devised to meet the large instrument with 15-foot needs of orchestras which liked pedals; furnishes the Island muthe sound of the Hawaiian guitar, sic that keeps the Shriners and, but couldn’t use it because of its onlookers swaying. {
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“MUSICAL arrangers found it Future Business nearly impossible to adapt arrangements for the Hawallan gul-| Leaders Elect
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ALOHA—Miss Darlene Lamar right) hulas to the music
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"The song, when it is finished,
| rock) Gunter, of Birmingham, | (Dixie) Division here, in this state that could be used
| make the most of it while I'm
| he uses in the entertainment { on the labels of his Decca Rec- | ords—is no stranger to Indiana.
| overseas with the 106th Infan- § | try (Golden Lion) Division.
tar,” Jay said. “What was needed was an instrument with multiple New Officers tunings.” : By experimenting Jay found a. HIgh school students compristhe tension on the strings to pro- ture Business Leaders of America duce the various tunings. His have elected officers. first instrument was equipped resident is Willlam Lambert, Law-| with one foot pedal. The pres- rence Central High School, who ent model has four, {is also natinnal vice president and Jay also points out how the in-| state first vice president of the strument simplifies’ playing for! FBLA. Eines iat instrument the Other new officers are: steel bar would have to be moved Lambert and Patty Loux, four times to produce the three! important chords of any one key,” he said. “The Multi-Kord will play all of the by leaving the bar in| its first position and touching the, foot pedals to produce the proper chords.” Jay 1s one of five brothers who 2nd local reporter,
itary; Don Perrin, Kinnick, reporters. Mrs. Violet Curtis Lacy is faculty adviser.
3 guitar ‘playing and entertaining] (National Education Association A . dates back to m3 when he Hved
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New Argument satisfactory method of altering|!ng theslndianapolis group of Fu- For Putting Off
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played by Jay Harlin on his Multi-Kord.
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LOS ANGELES, June 7—Good. results with a Swedish drug for | CHICAGO, June 7 — Put the treatment of ulcerative colitis are | year 2000 in your date book as a reported by Dr. Lester M. Morri- | good time to go to a hosiptal. that time a hospital will be haven of comfort for the patient.’ Peggy Wards will be almost as extinct, bination of a sulfa drug and sali-| vice as the dodo. Complete air-condi- cylic acid. presidents; S8audra Ridley, secre- tioning and plumbing facilities 1t wag developed by A. B. Phar-| treasurer; built into electrically operated macia, Upsala pharmaceutical {Charles Chandler and Dee Ann beds will be other features. All this and more besides, such as radar-cooked meals with ‘“de-
Three local members, William !ightful” taste as well as Suitable Stockholm.
Lambert, Charles Chandler, state Nourishing factors and ind Donna sterilization of instruments an ¢ t 20 sh \utensils by highcvoltagé rays, are Course of treatment, showed
operate: the Harlin Brothers Gui-| Sierp, state presiderit, will repre-| b “great improvement” and 10 temtar Studio, 221 N. Illinois St. His, sent Central District FBLA at the! joregeen a peak 1 of
College of ' Medical The drug is an azo dye com-| It is called azulfidine. | firm, at the suggestion of and In
collaboration with Prof. Hanna Svartz of the Carolinian Institute,
da Of 42 patients who had the full
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He'll Write Some Hoosier Tunes
By: TOM FARRELL CAMP ATTERBURY, June 7—Indiana soon may ‘be used as the theme of a
nation’s Hit Parade of popular music. . At least that's the hope of a young Camp Atterbury Army lieutenant: a singer and coms poser in civilian life, who plans to write a lyric about the Hoosfer state.
will be of the hillbilly variety because its author is one of the nation’s most promising country singers. He's Lt. Sidney L.
(Hard-
a member of the 31st Infantry
“There's a world of material
by a song writer and I hope to
here,” the 27-year-old soldier said. Hardrock—that’'s the name
fleld and it appears that way
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He was stationed here during World War II and then went
The 106th arrived in France $2.99 Ve a few days before the Battle of H the Bulge and nearly all of the armeay Division was captured. Lt. Gun- HARDROCK’ GUNTER—Hopes to write, record Hoosier hit, ry ter spent four months in a Nazi Soa Now Only Pri V (RRs Ro dL: : Toner of war prob ii cording en week ends, when he songs and wound up on the Hit CII: U-In. to 36 professionally ever since he was |S able to get away from camp ~ Parade. a quality réady-m on a three-day pass. Decca “Honky Tonk Baby” is a hit 64-Inch length.
12 years old. It wasn’t until several years ago, however, that he hit the big time. He, wrote “Birmingham Bounce” and it was a hit tune during the summer of 1950. Twenty-one bands .and “name” singers, including Red Foley, Tex Williams, Pee Wee King, Tommy Dorsey and Lionel Hampton, made recordings of Gunter’s song.
o » s » IMPRESSED by the showing | of this song, Decca Records signed Lt. Gunter to a record-
enomel finish,
makes most of its hillbilly records in Nashville, Tenn. home of the country-style singing. Rightsmow Lt. Gunter is waiting to hear how his latest disc, a specia] release, is selling. On one side is “Honky Tonk Baby,” which he wrote while in convoy on the way from the Texas maneuvers to Camp Atterbury. On the back’ side is “I'm Looking for Another You.”
He is hoping “Honky Tonk Baby” may-be what they call a
tune so far as Atterbury soldiers are concerned. “It's one of the most played records on | juke boxes in the camp’s service clubs and restaurants,
Before coming back into the Army, Gunter conducted two early-morning ‘hillbilly and music programs on Birmingham Radio Station WAPI, had a 30minute television show on WAFM-TV each day and sang in a leading Birmingham restaurant six nights a week.
“I hope I can ‘put over’ a song
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| ing contract in January, 1950, “pop”—that is a hillbilly song about Indiana,” he said. “This NOMO..corsrncrsnansrnsase ops rvs | a month beforg he came back that is recorded by popular is the second time I've lived Addrons. . cosiossansonssresassnerists {porary improvement. into the Army with the Dixie name bands. Many so-called here and I'm starting to con- | Cy : cress Lianne sin ay He gave this picture in a report! Dr. Morrison called the drug Division. hillbilly songs—Ilike “Cold, Cold sider, it my second home. It’s | an : 4 $8.98 0f _He has made seven records for Heart,” "Tennassee Walts,”.dnd _ easy . to ‘write “songs about [ I lulcerative colitis, Decca. He does all of his re- _“others—started out as cotntry pegple’ Itke you Hoosiers,” i i 0 Natural \ Now Only
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