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Show I RADIO BRINGS INVENTION OF "MAGNIFYING VIOLIN" A. (Cy Vi: Scrxlcc) NEW YORK, May 20. Radio has caused the invention of a special "magnifying violin." It Is the product of Harold Stern, director of a New York hotel orchestra. orches-tra. Stern has been broadcasting violin music from the large stations around New York using his Invention as tho instrument. Ho says he made it especially es-pecially for this purpose. The "magnifying violin ' Is similar to others except for the body or sounding box. Instead of the boely. Stern has attached a cylindrical metal box nut if whloh projects a horn. lien h" draws the bo over the string. Stern says he gets a much louder sound out of the Instrument. The lower tones arc even superior to those produced on the regular violin, he adds. Anoiher surprising feature about this "magnifying violin" Is that It can be used as a recording Instrument during the radio concerts All that need be done Is separate the clln-l drlcal sounding box and horn from T Harold Stern and Ills "magnifvlus vloUn." the rest of the instrument and attach It to the telephone. |