SUNDAY,EEBRUARY_?,_1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
20TH CENTURY CRAFTSMANSHIP:
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Violin Make
By DEBRA DURCHSLAG
many years to play
POPULAR legend has it that in, and a strongl
that story of fine violins began may take from 40 t
in the 17th century and ended in fore it "sounds."
the esrly 18th.Plyncasst
It is true that during this period Playing causes th
the modern violin was developed, brate more sympat
when the names of the Italian monics of the insts
craftsmen of Cremona were made creased and balar
synonymous with history of fine proper amount of
violin-making. to Maddy. "If a
Stradivari was the most famous mellow and playse
of these workers, even in his own Maddy pointed ou
lifetime, and Guarneri del Gesu are probably too1
and the brothers Amati ran him instrument may
a close second. However, according more use,"
to Ann Arbor violin maker Rich- A GOOD violin
ard A. Maddy, that doesn't mean craftsmanship.
that fine violins can't be made ways of primary
today, the violinist, but
In fact, Maddy explained, the is also interested
craftsmanship of the Italian mas- ment of fine workr
ters was often crude, both in in- The pattern in
ternal and external parts, in com-
parison with the work of the best carving of the acre
modern makers the matching of t
Inthearearof sound, however, are all details th
the Italian instruments rank first. the value of a violi
This is due to a number of fac- ing any bearing o
tors, including the selection of quality.
wood and varnish, but perhaps the Fine instruments
largest single factor is the long pletely by hand. Th
period of time they have been in with pie-cuts of w
use, bolts, that are qu
taken around the tz
EEN the instruments of Stradi- Pine wood is used fo
vari were Sometimes rejected maple or sycamore
when they were new. It takes Rough bolts ar
RADIATION RESEARCH:
a good violin
y-made violin
to 80 years be-
ae plates to vi-
hetically. Har-
ument are in-
iced with the
use, according
violin sounds
easily at first,"
t, "the plates
thin, and the
lay out with
is a feat of
Sound is al-
importance to
a connoisseur
in an instru-
manship.
the wood the
11l and f holes,
he ribs-these
it can change
n without hav-
in the sound-
are made com-
e maker works
ood, known as
arter sections
runk of a tree.
ir the top, with
for the back.
e carved, not
VIOLIN-MAKER MADDY WOjKKS OVER EMBRYONIC VIOLA
'r Maddy Works in Ann Arbor
Continue Cancer Hot'Cures Study
with more detailed knowledge of
the extent of the malignant growth
than was previously obtainable.
Last year, Dr. Samuel Unter-
myer of the Argonne National
Laboratory and Dr. Robert Has-
terlik of the Argonne Cancer Hos-
pital in Chicago developed an X-'
ray unit that can be used today
in making films of the skeletal
system for clinical use.
AT BNL, the nuclear reactor it-;
self has been used as a medi-
cal instrument of treatment. It isi
used as a neutron source whereby
it is possible to make a desired
radioactive isotope within a can-
cer itself.
This procedure Dr. Farr calls
"neutron capture therapy" refer-
ring to the "capture of a slow
neutron by a target material which
has been previously administeredr
to the patient."
WILD'S WILD'S
The target element to the tu-
mor is confined so that it alone
will be radiated with a high in-
tensity lethal radiation while the
surrounding normal tissue, rela-
tively free of target element, es-
capes unmarked. The immediate
decay prevents the transport of
the radioactive element to other
parts of the body.
Since this type of therapy per-
mits radiation dosage at depth
and chemical or biological dis-
crimination is used to distribute
the target element, neither size,
shape, age nor depth location of
the tumor are necessarily limiting
factors.
Though much work remains, as
Dr. Farr put it: "The use of pro-
ducts of nuclear reactors to treat
disease and to study disease will
inevitably broaden our knowledge
of how better to control many
disorders now plaguing mankind."
WILD'S WILD'S :_
pressed, into the arched shape
of the plates.
Within the tested outlines used
in violin making, there is much
variation of detail possible. The
f holes on the top plate can be
carved in different proportions,
not to mention the rounding of
corners and arching of plates.
A CRAFTSMAN in his own right,
Maddy has studied violin con-
struction for almost eight years.
He also plays the instrument, "al-
though not too well" he admitted,
but his first love is the mechanism
itself.
Maddy became interested in vio-
lin-making through his father,
Prof. Joseph E. Maddy of the
music school and founder of the
National Music Camp in Inter
lochen.
It was through Prof. Mausia'a
suggestion that his son appren-
ticed under the late W. C. Stinger,
violin-maker at the Camp, and
thus began his career in violin-
making.
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GEIGER COUNTER FOLLOWS RADIOISOTOPE
By HARRY STRAUSS
IS ATOMIC ENERGY the final while it cannot be maintaine
answer in the treatment of can- a definite answer, "it may lea
cer? effective control of certain hi
Since nucleanics has been in malignant, very prevalent car
the spotlight over the past decades, now causing death of thousand
research has been in progress not people annually."
only for destruction via weapons
but for improving and saving Radioactive isotopes may
lives. be taken internally and trace(
Medical research, using atomic they move through the body.
energy or aspects of it, has been isotope is one of two element
done in many parts of the United the same mass.) In the pic
States. The University has done above a geiger counter is
some work in this filid and ex- lowing the course of radioai
pects to do much more, as do iodine as it moves toward the1
many other institutions. roid gland. This makes pos
The government has put great the determination of the am(
emphasis on research concerned of iodine actually being taker
with the peacetime uses of atomic by the gland.
energy. For this purpose there are Together with radioactive pl
many regional laboratories and phorus, radioactive iodine was
research centers. One of these is first isotope to be used in medii
Long Island's Brookhaven Nation- The "hot" iodine is taken ur
al Laboratory, under contract to properly stimulated thyroid c
the Atomic Energy Commission cer tissue and retards or deat
and sponsored by nine eastern the surrounding cancer growtl
universities.
Radioactive phosphorus is
IN ANSWERING the question of being used in the localizatio.
atomic energy and its rela- tumors of the brain as well as
tionship to cancer, Lee E., Parr, ganic radioactive iodine C
medical director at BNL, said that pounds. It provides the surg
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