Show TEACHER OF ORIENTAL LORE levantine has set up studio in new york caleb la Is a high blah caste oriental called a levantine ile he lias has recently opened a studio in twenty first street to teach barbaric americans about damascene antiques and tile lore of 0 incense and oriental things generally it is s no small thing said the disciple of damascus but ive touched the heart mith my incense fiddle and the ho rest N hlll III be easy the incense fiddle Is a beatt shaped instrument played in the lap or on the shoulder the foundation Is a sweet smelling wood inlaid with mother of pearl aud gems when it Is laid hat flat the little fish akin surface makes a bovil boi and receives a thin brass plaque incense Is burned in the plaque and as the fumes rise to the nostrils of the player the spirit moves him he be draws his bis arrow shaped bow and improvises the queer melodies odthe or the orient we have lave incense lamps tabour ettes rugs and even vases but the fiddle seems to ze be the object around which tho the american fancy lingers new york times |