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Show SENOR MOYA IS IN SALT LAKE Salt Lake. Jan. 15 The Herald says: Hidalgo Moya, Spanish violin maker, has arrived m Salt Ike from England and while here will demonstrate demon-strate his new method of violin con struction, which hp claims explodes the different theories put forward as to the finesse of the tone of instruments instru-ments built by the old masters. Mr. Moya claims that temperament enters into the construction of what he terms the "crudest but most Inspiring of all Instruments." Mr. Moya enjovs the distinction In the musical world of making the greatest violins of modern times. His studio is in Leicester, England a few miles from London. Mr. Moya does not claim to make every violin which bears his name. His students and his employees make the violin as it appears ap-pears to an audience, but the tone Is given to the instrument by Moya himself. him-self. At the Hotel Utah Mr. Moya exhibited ex-hibited a violin which was unvarnish ed and made, he says, from some of the oldest wood obtainable in England. Eng-land. He claims that the violin has a tone equal to any violin in the world made w ithin the same space of time Mr. Moya presented to Romania Hyde, the Salt Iake violinist who is studying in Berlin, a violin of his finest construction. He said that he can turn out only four violins of this type each year and that the remainder of his time Is devoted to making of the cheaper grade of instruments. "Miss Hyde is an artist," said Mr. Moya. "In the first place she has the physique for a violinist. To the aduT-ence aduT-ence it does not appear that a violinist must have strength, but the continual practice of seven to eight hours a day is most trying. In addition to physique, physi-que, Miss Hyde has a soul for music. She has no time for anything but practice I heard her play when she was In Leicester about eighteen months ago and I heard her play again last September. The change in her was most remarkable. The tone the personality she puts Into her violin vio-lin is assurance that she will become one of the leading violinists of me world. 'Emma Lucy Gates, another Salt Lake g'rl who has made a great impression im-pression upon the European musical world, is singing at the Royal opera house at Cas6el. I have not heard her, but throughout the empire there is a feeling that she should belong to Germany alone as her remarkable career as a grand opera singer has won recognition even at the imperial palace." Mr. Moya will remain in Salt Lake several days. A recital will be given for him at the Tabernacle on Thurs day. 00 |