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Show PERFECT SEATING Famed Quartet Appears at Granite Arts Next attraction on the popular popu-lar Granite. Arts Association series will be the highly acclaimed ac-claimed Hungarian Quartet. The group will appear at Granite Gran-ite High school auditorium, Tuesday, April 11. This quartet, which is tour- ing the United States, at present pres-ent is to be credited with several sev-eral innovations. I The connoisseur of quartet music who hears them for the first time, for instance, is apt to be surprised at the way they seat themselves on the concert platform. They group themselves them-selves in a shallow half-circle. The orthodox seating of a quartet is in a square. This inevitably in-evitably hides at least one of the performers behind a comrade, his instrument hardly visible to the audience. The shallow half-circle half-circle of the Hungarian Quartet Quar-tet places each performer directly di-rectly before the audience and all of the four instruments clearly in view. Also each player play-er sees his three comrades clearly, which facilitates the perfect contact that they must obtain amone them. To add to the advantage of I this seating, the Hungarian Quartet uses very low music stands. These stands do not hide them from the audience, nor from each other. But the quartet is still move unorthodox in the strings it uses for its precious instruments. instru-ments. They use steel strings instead of the immemorial catgut. cat-gut. In defense of this they say that the steel string is more resistant re-sistant than the gut string to the shocks the instruments suffer suf-fer on tours. They also say that the steel string holds tune much longer, and that this does away with the awkward tuning during dur-ing a performance, so often needed with gut strings. Quick short notes played on the lower j strings, they also say, are much clearer when the strings are of steel. |