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Page 4 The Nebraskan Wednesday, Dec. 6, .1960 Musical Four Million Years Old What's in Morrill Hall that can be found nowhere else on earth? The bbnophone, designed and constructed by Henry P. Reider, chief preparator of the University State Museum, is unique. It is a xylophone made from the bones of a 4 million year old fossil rhi noceros. Rubber Bands Two rows of bones are at tached by rubber bands to a rubber covered wooden frame. They run the full two octave range of a true xylo phone from G below mid dle C to G in the second oc tave above. Reider described the pure sounds when the bones are hit by common hardwood mallets as unique not the sound of glass and yet not the sound of steel. Students may haar the songs, played by Reider, by inserting a dime in the little machine located near the bonophone. The display of the bonophone and the skeleton of the reconstructed bone rhinocerous is located on the first floor of Morrill Hall by the east side entrance. In 1926 the University Mu seum Field Party collected some teleoceros bones near Ainsworth in north-central Nebraska. The remains of this short-legged rhinoceros were found in a middle Plio cene deposit which is some four million years old. Silicon dioxide carried by prehistoric ground waters had replaced the boney tissue. I Lack of endurance takes a lot of ;the fun out of sports for many part-time athletes. Now science has discovered an easy way to increase musde stamina. ' Now available at alt drugstores is Absorbine Jr. W arm-Up the invigorating rub you use before exercise. Warm-Up has proved in clinical research to make muscle power last longer. Clinical studies reveal the time required to fatigue a muscle treated before exercise with Warm Up is almost double that of an untreated muscle. Using the Elec tromyograph (electronics' newest Corsages! for the Ball ill 1 I 1306 N Pi Kappa trr HI N E-2 II l z s. -.r Phi Delta Theta Bone Xylophone Three 'years later, when Reider began to mount the bones of the rhinocerous for a Museum display, he acci dentally discovered the dis tinctive musical quality of the ribs. It was found that only the bones of the Teleoceros from this particular bone de posit were musical. Four Years r After this discovery, Reider spent his spare time for four years constructing the instru ment to utilize the bones. He studied the xylophone and began the work of tuning the musical bones. Using a set of orchestral bells, each bone was filed by hand to the proper length. Many bones were sorted be fore those of the proper pitch could be found. In 1936 the bonophone made its de but before the Museum staff. A year later it was featured on a national radio broadcast. Immediately there were many requests for - appear ances. Reider appeared with Original Art Prints For Christmas Gifts Christmas gifts in the form of original art prints are on sale at the art galleries in Morrill Hall. On sale for $3.50' to $300 are black and white and color prints of many popular mod ern painters. The annual Christmas sale, put on by the Nebraska Art Association, will continue until Dec. 18: medical tool) doctors could actu ally see W arm-Up almost double muscle endurance, v Now you can have longer -lasting muscle power for sports and exercise. Whenever you want extra endurance, rub on Warm-Up be fore you start See if you don't have more stamina. Warm-Up is available at all drugstores. Absorbine Jr. Warm-Up BEFORE Sports - AFTER Over-Exertion Beautiful, 3hapely Orchids, from ... The most Cherished White Orchids, from Roses, Sweetheart Roses, Carnations Hi in beautifully arranged Corsages from $2.50 pj Order . today for best selection DANIELSON FLORAL i 1 1 . Phi Delta ilMSj Zeta Alpha his bonophone on national and local radio and television shows. - "The bonophone is just for fun, proving that there is hu- mor even in paiemoiogy, Reider said. A poem was even once written about it: Before the dawn of history, In fact, before the flood, The rhinoceros frolicked In the prehistoric mud." He little thought, this an cient beast, That from his bones Would come the tones Of waltzes, jazz and swing. Early Ag Training Important Goodding Encourages Personal Approach Student interest in the field of agronomy, and later on zeal for superior achievement in agronomy courses, are stimulated through a personal approach between the teacher and the student according to Dr. T. H. Goodding. , Such shaping of an agricul tural career should start early in the life of a student, said Dr. Goodding, retired agro nomy professor, who spoke at an education session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Agrono my in Chicago. Goodding said students are faced with many problems. One of the big problems of a student from a rural high school is to adjust to a large university or college. "One of the first observa tions that tends to bewilder the new student is the enor mous size of the college classes," he said. The professor said it has been a policy in the agronomy department to help bridge the gap between high school and college by limiting the size of lecture and laboratory sec tions to- 35' students in the beginning courses. "This provides an equal op portunity for the student and the instructor of the course to become personally ac quainted," Goodding said. $350 . . $600 HE 2-7602 Sigma Phi Alpha Phi Tau Alpha Xi Delta LITTLE MAN HcWAfMOJS VU AK6 TQ6et ,?LCHV, SUV I DIBIT THNtC &X fm WCLP U TtXI rViV66S oar OH WEOflflTK.' Freshman For Quartet Barbara Chasson,, fresh man in the department of mu sic, has been chosen as the only student in a string quar tet which will provide educa tional, experience for Nebras ka high schools. Miss Chasson will play sec ond violin in the quartet. Oth er members include Prof. Louis Trzcinski, director of the group who will play the viola; Arnold Shatz, instruc tor, first violin; and Priscilla Parson, assistant professor, cello. A key part of the program of the department of music has been the development of this string quartet and an en semble which takes informal music sessions to parents and to students of high school age. Prof. Trzcinski attributed the reason for the formation of the group to the "over whelming increase in interest in studying the violin, viola, cell and other string instru ments among high school stu dents in Nebraska." Wesley Reist, assistant pro fessor of woodwinds, and Larry Lusk, instructor in pi ano, join the quartet to fill out the ensemble. 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