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There are lots of ways to make beautiful music on instruments other than the familiar ones. This week, Tidbits looks at some of the world’s more unusual instruments along with a few well-known ones.

• Atlantic City, New Jersey, is home to the world’s largest pipe organ, with seven manuals, or keyboards, and 33,112 pipes. Credited as the largest musical instrument ever constructed, it was built between 1929 and 1932 by Long Island, New York’s Midmer-Losh Organ Company at a cost of $350,000, and weighs about 150 tons. It’s in the midst of a 10-year, $16 million restoration project. If you want to take a tour of the organ at that city’s Boardwalk Hall, you will need to notch out 4 ½ hours.

• Another interesting organ is located deep in the Luray Caverns of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Its inventor Leland Sprinkle was a scientist and mathematician at the Pentagon who discovered that the cave’s stalactites produced deep resonating notes when struck. Over the course of three years in the early 1950s, Sprinkle tuned stalactites across 3 ½ acres to specific pitches using sandpaper. Rubber-tipped mallets were then wired to keys on the Great Stalacpipe Organ’s keyboard, so that they would strike the stalactites whenever the corresponding key was played. turn the page for more!

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Welcome to Summit Realty Group:

Mary Valdez

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I have been in the Real Estate profession for 18+ years all of which have been in the beautiful community of Sheridan, Wyoming. I am proud to have been recognized as a top selling real estate agent in Sheridan for more than 15 years.

During this time, I have had the opportunity to meet and develop relationships with many people coming to, living in and moving away from Sheridan and surrounding towns. I take pride in not only meeting your immediate real estate needs, but to continue to nurture a lasting friendship with you and your family members. Understanding that selling or buying a home can be a very stressful part of one’s life I strive in making real estate transactions an enjoyable and satisfying experience. I pride myself in actively using the most advanced technology, marketing techniques and communication methods available today. I have an unwavering commitment to the highest ethical standards and am dedicated to maintaining loyalty, accountability and confidentiality specific to my fiduciary responsibilities.

The team at Summit Realty Group shares these visions and personal goals and continues to work at meeting your real estate needs with confidence. Please feel free to stop by our office or call me for your personal showing or other real estate information. Take the opportunity to “Experience the difference” and don’t forget to visit our web page and the wonderful video’s of our current listings.

I am a lifelong resident of Sheridan County, and truly love the community I have chosen to call home. I married my high school sweetheart in 2002, and together we have 4 beautiful children. We make our home in Dayton, where both my wife Amanda and I are active members in the community. We are avid athletes, and coach our children in soccer, basketball, and football. We know what healthy competition and hard work is all about! I am also a board member of the Sheridan Rec District while my wife is the current president of the Tongue River school district’s PTO. My family and I truly believe in and practice the morals and responsible ethics it takes to not only raise great kids, but to really support a community as well. I am known for being an honest and hardworking man, not just at work, but in all aspects of my life. When I am not busy working or coaching, my family and I enjoy working out together, camping, and spending time in the gorgeous outdoors of Wyoming.

I have been a licensed realtor in the state of Wyoming since 2004, and in the last 10 years have sold over 64 million dollars of real estate. I have been a constant on the list of the top agents in the county for the last several years, and am currently ranked #1 in overall sales. My dedication to my work is evident in my relationships with my clients. I am always willing to go the extra mile in order to ensure my clients’ know that they are truly taken care of during the entire real estate process. I understand the demands of balancing work and family, and am passionate about helping my clients find the perfect place that they too can call home.

I am a real estate professional working in the Sheridan area since 2005.

I grew up in Sheridan, WY on a registered Polled Hereford cattle ranch 3 miles North of town. My grandparents (John & Ruth Rice) purchased the Wrench Ranch in the 1940s. What an amazing childhood I had! I left Sheridan in the 1980s to adventure around the US. I traveled and lived on the East and West coasts and places in between. We moved back to Sheridan in 2004 to raise our two wonderful children, Andrew & Julia.

We’ve enjoyed the seasons, culture, and the many outdoor activities available to us here. Hiking in the Big Horn Mountains is my absolute favorite!

After being a stay at home mother for 16 years (which I wouldn’t trade for the world), I decided to get my real estate license. I received my license in the fall of 2005 and came to work for Mary and Doug Valdez.

In my practice of real estate, I am well known for great customer service, consistent communication, strong attention to detail, and ensuring a positive experience for all parties involved in a transaction. My approach is this, “it is about the people, not the agent.” I know how important communication is and I know what it takes to successfully close a transaction making the buying or selling experience a positive one!

“It’s not about me, it’s about YOU!”

Born and raised in the town of Sheridan gives you a sense of appreciation for not only the beautiful scenery and activities that are available, but the value of the people that make up our wonderful community. I have been part of the ups and downs of the housing market in Sheridan and the surrounding communities and developed a keen sense of the market trends, desirable locations and future focus and expansion areas of our city. This experience, coupled with your personal desires and needs in real estate, is a recipe for success, for both sellers and buyers in our market today.

Many of you know me from being actively involved in Lawn Pro and my goal has always been making sure that the customer is satisfied. I have brought this goal forward in Summit Realty Group, Inc. and look forward to accomplishing it with each and every one of you. Please stop in for a visit or free feel to call me anytime. My time is your time and I look forward to meeting you and your family.

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Eddie Bateson

My name is Eddie Bateson and my number one goal in the real estate business is to make your real estate transitions as smooth and stress-less as possible. My back ground is in natural resource management, having graduated from the University of Idaho with degrees in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, Forestry and Range Resources. I have 34 years experience in Federal land management and regulatory interpretation which provides expertise in water right issues, conservation easement applications, agricultural evaluations, mineral rights, and overall rangeland and ranch marketing. Although strong in agriculture, I can always assist you with the marketing and sell of your current home and purchase of your next dream location. I look forward to meeting you and your family and to help with any of your real estate needs. Stop in and visit with our team at Summit Realty Group and remember….When your ready, ask for Eddie.

Doug Valdez

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I grew up in Concord California, moved to Lake Tahoe Ca. in 1977 where I met Mary. We got married in 1978 and escaped to Sheridan WY. I started my career in Real Estate in 2000 to help Mary with her business. In 2002, we decided to start our own company. I worked at Spring Creek Coal Company for 22 years until 2004 when I joined Mary full time in our exciting new venture. We started our company with the goal of putting together a small group of great agents to provide an excellent experience for Buyers and Sellers.

Mary and I work for our clients as a team. Mary specializes in working with Sellers and I work with Buyers.

My other role with Summit Realty Group, Inc. is to market our team visually through the innovative use of technology. At Summit Realty Group, Inc., we always push the envelope to provide the latest and best quality marketing tools for our clients. We introduced “Virtual Tours” to the Sheridan market and recently introduced “ Video walkthrough Tours “. Our latest addition is “ Aerial Video Tours”. I have a lot of fun learning new techniques and using them to make our listings stand out.

I am a wife & a mother. My husband Cruz is a Heavy Equipment Operator for Spring Creek Coal, the same company my father worked with for 22 years before getting into real estate. We have been married for 7 years & have 3 sweet, adorable children, Cruz Jr., Rio & Isabella - love them to pieces!

I’m a life-time resident of Sheridan who joined my Mom & Dad’s real estate business in 2005. Since then, I have maintained a position as a Top Producing agent in Sheridan County, with a repeat client base! My clients love my no-nonsense approach and also that I provide them with a wealth of information about the market, market trends, & back-up what I say with statistics. It is common for my clients to say, “No one has ever explained that to me” or “You have given me more information than any other agent I have talked to” or “It’s nice to have an aggressive agent.” I have the best support staff in the county, my broker provides her expertise to all our agents, Valerie & Beth, our Office Managers, do the jobs that other offices require a larger staff to accomplish. Needless to say, my success in the business comes from great support & from working with such a tight-knit group. When you hire me, you’re getting the expertise of a Top Producing agent who will go to bat for you & who is willing to collaborate with other agents to arrive at the best option for YOU, the consumer!

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As a native of Sheridan WY I feel truly blessed to be able to live in this great community I choose to call home. I am truly passionate about our beautiful area and the amazing people who live here. When I was 5 my family purchased a cabin on Red Grade where my 3 siblings and I hiked, camped, fished and explored every inch of the mountain looking for buried treasure ~~ which we never did find!

I worked for SCSD2 for 12 years as a substitute teacher while my children were growing up and I can honestly tell you that our teachers and schools are amazing! After both of my children graduated I moved to Billings for two years where I was blessed to work with Cabela’s as their customer service manager. I began working with that amazing group of people 6 months before the store opened and stayed another year.

What a year that was! However, I missed my hometown and knew that I needed to follow my heart and quickly moved back to Sheridan.

I joined the amazing team of Summit Realty Group in April of 2011 and enjoy the challenges that real estate has to offer. Each day is a new adventure with new clients and old where I pride myself on great customer service, honesty and of course my passion for the area. I look forward to helping YOU with your new home purchase or the sale of your home!

My goal in real estate is to help you reach your goal, whether it be a purchase or a sale; in the shortest time possible.

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INSTRUMENTS (continued): • The Fluegelhorn has its origins in the early 18th century, when it was a large semicircular hunting horn, essentially a bugle without valves, played by the “Fluegelmeister.” The modern instrument looks much like a trumpet, but with a much wider bell. It has a richer, mellower, darker sound than the trumpet, about halfway between the tones of a trumpet and a French horn.

• Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument called the hydrocrystalophone, which in simpler terms is known as the glass armonica. His armonica consisted of a series of glass bowls of graduated size floating in a tray of water. The varying sizes produced different musical tones based on the size of the bowl.

• A thin flat wooden frame with up to 50 strings stretched across its body is known as a zither. Five of the strings are used to play the melody with the remainder used for the harmony. The performer can pluck the strings with either his fingers or a special tool called a plectrum. The zither is common in Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, and southern Germany. An early form of the zither was found in the tomb of Chinese royalty dating back to 433 B.C. • The indigenous Australians of northern Australia developed the didgeridoo about 1,500 years ago, and it’s still in use today. The wooden cylinder measures anywhere from 3 to 10 ft. (1 to 3 m) in length. The longer the didgeridoo, the lower the pitch.

Aboriginal craftsmen look for hollow live eucalyptus trees, usually ones that have been invaded by termites that have attacked only the heart of the tree.

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For Advertising Call (307) 655-5095 INSTRUMENTS (continued): • Oompah! Where would marching bands be without the sousaphone? Although many folks call it a tuba, this large 40-lb. (18.1 kg) brass instrument that wraps around the player (who supports most of the weight with his or her shoulder) is more accurately called a sousaphone after its designer. John Philip Sousa, conductor of the United States Marine Band in the 1890s, and composer of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” was looking for an improvement to the era’s helicon, a narrower version of the sousaphone. Sousa came up with a design that was submitted to Philadelphia’s J.W. Pepper Company, a design with the bell pointed upward. By the 1920s, the design had been changed to the bell pointing outward for better sound projection. In more recent years, the instruments have been manufactured from fiberglass to lighten the load.

• The hurdy-gurdy has been around since about the 12th century when it was known as the organistrum or symphonia. It’s a threestringed instrument with a wheel or circular bow that is turned by a crank. The strings are attached to keys and when the wheel rubs against the strings, it produces a sound similar to that of a violin. The large organistrum has a guitarshaped body and long neck where the keys are set. The name hurdy-gurdy is often confused with the barrel organ or street piano played by street musicians. That instrument consists of barrels onto which perforated paper rolls are attached. Only a turning of the crank is required to play the barrel organ, with no musical skills required. It’s the instrument seen in illustrations of an organ grinder and his performing monkey.

• One of the world’s oldest musical instruments, the harp, was developed from a hunting bow.

Pictographs of harps have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs dating back to 3000 B.C. The modern harp has a long hollow side called the column or pillar, in which are situated the rods that control the instrument’s seven pedals.

The pedals allow for changing notes and switching keys. Because there are no “black keys” to help the harpist locate notes on the nearly 50 strings, the “C” strings are colored red and “F” strings are black. The harp’s strings are made of nylon, gut, wire, or silk.

• The Jew’s harp isn’t a harp and it isn’t Jewish! Its proper name is “plucked idiophone,” and its small lyre-shaped metal frame is played by positioning it on the performer’s teeth. A bent metal tongue inside the frame is plucked by the player’s finger. Ancient frames dating back to the year 1400 have been found in Germany.

One of Beethoven’s music teachers, Austrian composer and organist Johann Alberchtsberger, composed several concerti for the Jew’s Harp around 1765.

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• Per capita, folks in Switzerland eat the most chocolate, about 22 lbs. (10 kg) per person per year. Australians consume 20 lbs. (9 kg) each annually, and the Irish eat 19 lbs. (8.6 kg) per person. Even though the United States produces the most chocolate worldwide, the average American consumes just 12 lbs. (5.4 kg) a year.

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CHOCOLATE-Y FACTS In honor of Chocolate Day on July 7, Tidbits checks out the facts on this favorite confection.

• A small evergreen tree ranging in height from 15 to 26 feet (4 to 8 m) is the source of cacao beans. The Theobroma cacao, native to Central and South America, produces seeds directly on its trunk rather than on branches. Each seed pod is about the size of a pineapple and holds between 30 and 50 seeds that have a very bitter taste until they undergo a seven-day fermentation process, which develops the flavor. In the ancient Mayan civilization, cacao beans were so valuable, they were used as currency. They were commonly counterfeited, with fakes fashioned out of painted clay.

• Christopher Columbus brought cacao beans back from what is now Honduras, presenting them to the Spanish king and queen who had financed his journeys. The beans’ value was overlooked for years until fellow explorer Hernando Cortez also brought back a stash of the precious cargo.

• Milton Hershey was already a candy manufacturer specializing in caramels when, in 1894, he decided to start producing sweet chocolate as a coating for the caramels. Soon Hershey was producing milk chocolate in 114 different bars and other shapes. He chose a location in south-central Pennsylvania for his operation, which has grown into the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America.

• Hershey’s kisses came along in 1907, and today the company produces over 80 million kisses every single day. About one billion pounds of chocolate products are produced annually by Hershey’s.

• The U.S. chocolate industry uses about 3.5 million pounds of whole milk every day to produce milk chocolate. They also use 40% of the world’s almonds and 20% of the world’s peanuts. About 400 cacao beans are needed to make one pound (450 g) of chocolate.

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CHOCOLATE (continued): • Research indicates that dark chocolate has many health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease by onethird. Its antioxidants seem to reduce blood pressure, widen arteries, and promote healthy blood flow. Some experts claim that it boosts memory, attention span, and problem-solving skills. Dark chocolate’s flavonoids, a type of plant chemical, have anti-inflammatory properties and cell-protecting effects. It doesn’t take much to reap the benefits – a 1.4 oz. (40 g) serving contains 536 mg of flavonoids, with research indicating that just 80 mg can produce a drop in blood pressure. But it’s only dark chocolate that has been shown to be beneficial, while milk chocolate, white chocolate, and other varieties are not.

• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, folks in Derbyshire, United Kingdom are responsible for producing the world’s largest chocolate bar in October, 2011. It measured more than 13 ft. square (4 m), was nearly 2 feet thick (0.35 m), and weighed more than 12,770 lbs. (5,792 kg).

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