Show A Novel Violin It was not not often said d Prof J J J. A A. Fleming In his leture at the Royal Roya Institution that a a. was enabled to exhibit an entirely new instrument in instrument in- in strument in the theatre of the Royal Roya Institution but this is he was able to do through h the kindness Augustus Augutus Stroll Stroh a member of the Institution who had loaned loanI him a a. violin of a a. novel Boyd kind he had Invented and which h had never been shown In public before Prof Fleming had been talking o of oC resonance and he explained that all ali string Instruments had sounding boards f of ot a particular shape ni and size sizeS in order order order or or- der that the vibrations set up In lit the theair theair theall air all by the drawing of the bow over the strings might not be lost ost In space pace but might act on some surface In reso ance as it was called with the he strings For the last years there had been little or no change In the structure of the violin which consisted now now as It had always done of three parts the strings the bridge and the body or sounding box The art of the maker violin lay in the construction pi pf this box and in determining its shape and size so as to obtain the best re re- re SuIts Mr Stroh in his new violin did didaway didaway didaway away with the sounding box entirely The body of ot the violin consisted o oa of ot a simple piece le ee of wood and the bridge rested on an aluminum lever which Itself rested on a round disk of aluminum alum alum- num this disk communicated with 52 J trumpet the open end of which pointed the same way a as the head bead of ot the violin Through the kindness of a lady who wh played the Instrument th the audience A II was permitted to hear it and Judge Of ot its qualities The new violin certainly had a beautiful tone and the musia was not Jot of a metallic nature as might be e expected though It did not appe appear to possess any very superior qualities qualities' over an ordinary violin of one of th the the great makers Apparently one of the th advantages claimed for i it Is that al alV violins of ot this type pe can be made de of precisely precisely precisely pre pre- the same tone L London Chron Chron- icle ide J |