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Show ? ODD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT I Strings Played With Bow, but Horn Gives Out Sound. Amonc the vsrlety of odd musical Instruments In-struments that have been rcceDtly deigned de-igned by musical Burbank. one of tho utrnfigrst In that hon in the Illustration. Illustra-tion. This combination of horn and violin, vio-lin, the work of an Oklahoma roan, Is capable of producing tones of tho weirdest weird-est nature and 1 espuclnlly effective In descriptive music. It consist of a ncck ' and bridge like those of a Tlolln, hot the JlI. produces weird tonf.s. diaphragm la a llttlo soond box leading Into a bnge horn. The Inbtrument H tucked under the chin like ft vlollu and played upon with a bow, but the sound that emanate, from the mouth of the horn would never be recognised as tho notes of any member of the Oddle family. In the nnmerooa musical "stunts" which have been seen on the vaudeville mage In recent year different types of vlollu-bonis vlollu-bonis hare been much In evidence, nnd all sorts of shifts hHve been resorted to to produce the inournfnl tones which. ar the cLaracterlntlc of this Instrument. |