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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides these, the Gold Coast Orchestra of the Instrumental Clubs, and the Specialty Division, will put on their various acts. There are to be xylophone and violin solos by Harold Benfield 1G.B., and Albert Lind '29, respectively. J. H. Wright '28 and C. E. Henderson '28 will play a piano duet, and there will be selections by a Hawaiian quartet, made up of T. D. Howe '28, J. H. Monroe '27, L. V. Phelan '28, and E. M. Welton '26. Banjo specialties by L. V. Phelan '28, W. P. Pratt '28, and G. A. Norton '28, will also be featured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS STAGE VARIED CONCERT | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

...instruments which are eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the ten or banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Clubs the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS TO HOLD MID-WINTER TRIALS | 2/5/1926 | See Source »

...wide that he is an uncle of President Coolidge. He announced that he had read of the exploits of "Mellie" Dunham, famed "fiddler-to-Ford," and is prepared to play for the fiddling championship of New England. A few credulous, unmusical reporters were impressed when Mr. Wilder displayed his violin. "I tell you it's nearly 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jan. 18, 1926 | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...first-rate violin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melody Three | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

Rodman Wanamaker bought four Stradivarius violins, "Conte La Chesnaie" (1687), "Dancla" (1710), "Joachim" (1723), and that consummately powerful and resonant violin which is called "The Swan" because it is the last one the master-carver made before he died. It bears the inscription, "In My Ninety-Third Year." Mr. Wanamaker will not use these instruments himself. They will be played in concerts in the auditoriums of Wanamaker Stores in Manhattan, Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melody Three | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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