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by Kathy Wolfe Did you know that April is International Guitar Month? This week, Tidbits is studying up on the best-selling musical instrument in the world, played by more than 50 million people worldwide. • The guitar is a chordophone, an instrument that makes its sound via vibrating strings stretched between two points. The word “acoustic” refers to a guitar that is not electronically amplified. An acoustic guitar produces its sounds by transmitting the strings’ vibration to the air, with the sound waves resonating though the guitar’s body. A soundboard, a thin sheet of wood, is placed under the strings to increase the resonance. Electric guitars have electromagnetic pickups that convert the strings’ vibrations into electrical signals, which are fed into an amplifier. • The guitar’s origins date back around 4,000 years. The oldest known image of an instrument with a guitar’s feature is 3,300 years old, a stone carving of a Hittite minstrel in Turkey. A Cairo, Egypt, archaeological museum is home to a 3,500-year-old guitar that belonged to an Egyptian singer named Har-Mose. His instrument was made of cedarwood with a rawhide soundboard and three strings. turn the page for more!
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GUITARS (continued): • Ancient stringed instruments used tortoise shells or hollowed-out gourds, with a bent stick for a neck, and strings of animal gut or silk. • In the early days, a guitar was defined as having “a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides.” • The word “guitar” is derived from the Spanish word, guitarra, which is a very large six-string acoustic bass played in mariachi bands. Other ancient terms from various languages include gitarre, qitara, cithara, kithara, and sihtar. • The neck of the guitar is comprised of the headstock (at the end of the neck), the fretboard (the fingerboard), the frets, which are metal strips embedded on the fretboard, the nut (a small strip of hard material at the junction of the headstock and neck), the tuners, and the truss rod, a metal rod along the inside of the neck. • Frets are located along the neck at exact points that divide the scale into half-step intervals. Which fret the string is pressed against determines the note’s pitch. • Decorative materials are usually set into the exterior of the guitar, such as dots on the fretboard to mark the positions or around the sound hole of acoustic guitars. These are known as inlays and are frequently made of mother of pearl. Inlays around the sound hole are called rosettes and serve as a type of reinforcement to the opening.
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Call Today (250) 832-3361 worth $80 million) became a director but returned to acting to superbly play Robert Kardashian in “American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson.” In May, he’ll star in the new AMC series “Feed the Beast,” with Jim Sturgess (of the January opener “Geostorm” with Gerard Butler). “Friend” Matthew Perry (net worth $70 million) did 22 episodes of the series “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and “Go On,” but did better with “The Odd Couple,” which is returning as a CBS midseason replacement. He’ll have “Desperate Housewife” Teri Hatcher as his love interest this time around. “Friend” Lisa Kudrow (net worth $60 million) had her series “Web Therapy” running from 2008-2014 and a comeback for “The Comeback” series in 2014. She’ll be seen May 6 in “Neighbors 2” with Seth Rogan and Zac Efron, as well as the Oct. 7 release of “The Girl on the Train,” with Emily Blunt and Aniston’s husband, Justin Theroux. Finally, “Friend” Matt Le Blanc’s (net worth $60 million) Showtime series “Episodes” has been renewed for season 5. It shoots in England, where he also hosts the BBC car series “Top Gear.” Hopefully, the second group of stars earning $1 million an episode, for the “The Big Bang Theory,” will do as well when their show ends! *** Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool” film has just cracked the top half of the 100 top grossing movies of all time. He’s now co-starring with Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones and “Wonder Woman” Gal Gadot in “Criminal,” out April 15, and preparing the screenplay for “Deadpool 2,” being released July 2017. Put a hot guy in a rubber costume and bingo, a “Deadpool” becomes a gold mine! (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
GUITARS (continued): • Acoustic guitars might be classical or flamenco versions. The classical guitar has a wide, flat neck to enable musicians to execute scales and arpeggios more efficiently. Strings are usually made of nylon. • A standard guitar usually has six strings, typically tuned from a low E to a high E, with A, D, G, and B in between. The 12-string guitar, used in folk music, blues, and rock and roll, has six courses of two strings each, usually made of steel. The bass guitar has four strings, turned to E-A-D-G, an octave below the lowest four strings of the six-string. • Les Paul came up with the idea of an electric guitar in the late 1930s. He wired a phonograph needle to his acoustic guitar and connected it to a radio speaker to amplify the sound. Unhappy with the hollow-body guitar, he designed a solid-body one from a cast-off railroad tie, an instrument with less feedback and a richer sound because of the wood’s mass. He nicknamed it “The Log,” and in 1940, the Epiphone guitar factory helped
The famous guitar solo on the legendary song “Stairway to Heaven” from Led Zeppelin’s fourth album was played by Jimmy Page, using a 1958 Fender Telecaster, a gift to him from Jeff Beck.
T S O COA PAT A device clipped onto the fretboard of a guitar to change the pitch of open strings
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1. What famous violin maker also crafted guitars in the late 17th century? 2. What name did blues guitarist B.B. King give to his Gibson guitars? 3. Which guitar company was founded in 1894 in Kalamazoo, Michigan? 4. Whose tombstone contains the carving of a Fender Stratocaster? 5. Name the type of electric guitar pickup that uses 2 coils to cancel out interference.
Bob Marley, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, and Joe Walsh. • The Fender factor manufactures about 90,000 strings a day, equaling about 20,000 miles GUITARS (continued): (32,187 km) in length, enough to circle the him produce a more attractive version with world. curved sides and an Epiphone fretboard. The • In 2004, Eric Clapton sold his favorite guitar, a Gibson Les Paul was first sold in 1952, and Stratocaster nicknamed Blackie at Christie’s they have gone on to manufacture 100 different Auction House in New York to raise funds variations of Les Paul models. for an alcohol and drug treatment center he • In 1946, a southern California inventor named had founded in 1997, the Crossroads Centre Leo Fender founded a new guitar company Antigua. The instrument fetched $959,500. (although he was a saxophonist, not a • In 1998, a devastating tornado struck Nashville, guitarist!). In 1951, the company introduced Tennessee, felling a giant 275-year-old poplar a new solid-body guitar that would become tree that stood on the grounds of the plantation known as the Telecaster. (It was first called the of 7th U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, The Broadcaster, but this was a conflict with a drum kit with the same name.) They also unveiled a brand new instrument, the electric bass, allowing those who played the upright bass to play a more compact instrument, rather than the cumbersome upright. The Stratocaster came along in 1954, created from ash wood. In 1956, the wood was changed to alder, which continues to be used today. In 1957, Buddy Holly and the Crickets made their television debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” That was also the television debut of the Stratocaster as Holly belted out “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue.” • Famous Fender guitar players include Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Jimmy Page, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and John Mayer. Artists who have chosen Gibson have included Chet Atkins, Chuck Berry,
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Desert and the forest elephants inhabiting Hermitage. The Gibson Company built 188 the rainforests of western Africa. Asian guitars out of the old tree, inlaid with the elephants are found in India, Sri Lanka, name “Old Hickory” (Jackson’s nickname) and China, and Southeast Asia. pictures of the president and his home. The first • You can tell the difference between the Old Hickory was donated to the Smithsonian two species by looking at the ears, since Institute, and proceeds from the sale of the the African’s are much larger. Its skin is remainder were donated to support restoration also much more wrinkled than its Asian of The Hermitage. counterpart. The African elephant’s trunk • Some electric guitars have a lever attached to the has two “fingers” at the end of the trunk, bridge or tailpiece to enable the musician to enabling it to pick things up, while the Asian quickly vary the tension and length of the strings breed has just one “finger.” to produce a vibrato or pitch bend effect. This • The elephant’s trunk contains eight major accessory is referred to as a tremolo bar, or more muscles on each side, and another 150,000 commonly, a whammy bar. portions of muscles throughout this unusual • The C.F. Martin guitar company was established appendage. Although there are no bones in in 1833 and to this day, remains in the hands of the trunk, it’s strong enough to push down the Martin family, with the great-great-greattrees, yet nimble enough to pick up a piece of grandson of the founder as its current CEO. grass. The elephant uses the trunk to drink, with water sucked partway up the trunk. The animal then tilts its head back, emptying the UNUSUAL ANIMALS: trunk into its mouth. ELEPHANTS • The diet of the herbivorous elephant consists Let’s observe Save the Elephant Day on April 16 by of grasses, leaves, fruits, and bark. This focusing on the facts about this pachyderm. pachyderm spends about 16 hours a day eating, and can consume over 400 pounds • There are two species of elephants, African and (181 kg) of food a day. Asian. The African elephants are the larger, and can reach a height of 13 feet (4 meters) head to • An elephant’s ivory tusks are actually its toe and weight up to 14,000 lbs. (6,350 kg). The incisors, the only incisors it has. The animal smaller Asian variety grow to a height of 9.8 feet also uses tusks to defend itself, to dig for (3 m), weighing up to 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kg). water and food, and for lifting. An elephant’s first tusks present at birth fall out after a year, • The African elephants, the largest of all land similar to human’s baby teeth. The tusks are mammals, have two subspecies, the savannah about 12 inches (30.5 cm) when they fall and the forest, with the savannah breed out, and the replacements grow throughout dwelling in the grasslands south of the Sahara the elephant’s life. In addition to tusks, an elephant also has four molars about the size of a brick, two up and two down, that weigh about 5 lbs. (2.3 kg) each. • Although the elephant’s ears are very large, it has a poor sense of hearing. Its eyesight is also quite weak. • A herd of elephants is led by the oldest female of the group. While the females all stick together, adult males enjoy wandering on their own. The gestation period is 22 months and a litter will consist of just one calf, with more than one a very rare occurrence. The
baby calf weighs nearly 250 lbs. (113 kg) at birth and will gain 2 to 3 lbs. (0.9 to 1.4 kg) every day for its first year. It won’t be weaned until it is almost three years old. • The elephant population is on the decline. At the turn of the 20th century, a few million African elephants occupied their habitat, and about 100,000 of the Asian variety. The African population has plummeted to between 450,000 and 700,000, and there are an estimated 35,000 – 40,000 wild Asian elephants remaining. Their lifespan can be up to 70 years.
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With National Jelly Bean Day scheduled for April 22, Tidbits wants you to be in the know on this favorite confection. • Did you know that jelly beans were the first candy to be sold by weight rather than by the piece? In 1905, the first recorded ad for the little beans was published in the Chicago Daily News, with a price of nine cents per pound. However, a Boston candy maker named William Schrafft was making them long before that, encouraging people to send his product to Union soldiers in the Civil War. It wasn’t until the 1930s that they became associated with the celebration of Easter. • About 16 billion jelly beans are manufactured in the U.S. every year just for Easter. Laid end to end, that’s enough to go around the world more than three times. • The process of making jelly beans is called “panning,” a method that creates the firmer outer shell while preserving a gummy interior. It takes between one and three weeks to make a jelly
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introduced – dirt, bacon, spinach, earwax, and vomit. Their “Boozled” line was presented with yummy flavors of dog food, baby wipes, and pencil shavings. • The term “jelly bean” isn’t always about candy. In the 1920s, it referred to a young man who dressed stylishly for the ladies, but had nothing much else to offer. • “You can tell a lot about a fella’s character by whether he picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful.” -- Ronald Reagan
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CAPOTASTO 1. GEOGRAPHY: On what continent is the nation of Sierra Leone located? 2. TELEVISION: Which TV character was known for the saying, “Live long and prosper”? 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which of Santa’s reindeer comes first, alphabetically speaking? 4. MEASUREMENTS: What is the time frame indicated in “circadian rhythm”? 5. MATH: How many sides does a heptagon have? 6. MUSIC: What was the Oscar-winning theme song of “The Poseidon Adventure”? 7. COMICS: What company created “Avengers,” “Spider-Man” and “Hulk”?
8. HIGHER ED: What private university’s main campus is in South Bend, Indiana? 9. ASTRONOMY: What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope? 10. MEDICAL: What is the focus of oncology? Answers 1. Africa 2. Mr. Spock, “Star Trek” 3. Blitzen 4. 24 hours 5. Seven 6. “The Morning After” 7. Marvel 8. Notre Dame 9. Uranus 10. Cancer (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.