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The Symphony (from page one) families: woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.

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clarinets, bassoons, and English horns. Brass consists of trumpets, French horns, trombones, and tubas. Percussion instruments include kettle drums, xylophones, cymbals, chimes, and tympanis. The string section is made up of first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

• The range of the pitch of instruments varies from high to low, with soprano the highest, followed by the lower-pitched alto, then tenor, and finally the bass, the lowest range. Soprano instruments would be the violins and flutes.

Oboes and violas play in the alto range, while cellos and clarinets are considered tenor voices.

The bassoon and the double bass are in the low bass range. The English horn is a tenor oboe.

of Cremona, Italy, Stradivari produced 1,116 instruments, including 960 violins. It’s believed around 650 of these still survive, 450 to 500 of which are violins.

• Violin strings were initially crafted from the dried intestines of cats or sheep. The guts were dried, stretched, and twisted. Today’s strings are made of a variety of metals along with synthetic materials.

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"I have a neighbor who has a chocolate lab.

Twice now, their dog has evaded their electric fence and come at me from 20 to 30 yards. Both times I was about to go on a run.

"I love dogs and have had dogs all my life, but this one charges toward me while baring its teeth. I had a water bottle and did a frantic toss of water at the dog, to no avail. It did not end up biting me, but I was sure it was a possibility.

"The owners were in their driveway both times and were very slow to respond. They eventually retrieved their dog, but they didn’t apologize. This last time I was very upset and said, “Please keep your dumb dog in your yard.” The husband came at me in an aggressive way as if he were going to fight me.

"Later, his wife came to our front door with the dog muzzled and leashed and asked me to come out and meet the dog so I could see that it would never bite me. She pointed out the permanent bump on its head in an authoritarian way, explaining, “This dog has been abused. We adopted it years ago. What do you want us to do, put it to sleep?” I said, “I don’t have time to get to know all the past emotional states of the dogs in the neighborhood. I just would expect dogs, yours included, not to come after me aggressively, growling and displaying their teeth.”

"It was only after I mentioned to her that they had never apologized for their dog’s behavior that she muttered, “Oh, I’m sorry.”

"I called the township police, and they came over and gave them a warning.

"In all this, I fear we will be seen as the unreasonable ones. They are already in the other neighbors’ driveways pitching their version and answering questions about why a police cruiser was in the cul-de-sac.

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Thankfully, do-overs are possible for these friends and mingle” has been the cry (as well as we live in frigid New England, and -- oh yes, it's folks. No one’s been hurt. Yet. what is written on the petition). “We want some the middle of December!

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For some time now, I have been working on a book that I plan to give to my kids and grandkids for Christmas. That book is full of stories and pictures from my life, my wife’s life, and our lives together. I figure somewhere down the road, one or more of those kids will find it a treasure trove of family history. At the beginning of the book, I quote a line from the Broadway musical, “Carousel,” that goes something like this: “As long as there is one person on earth who remembers you, it isn’t over.” And maybe that’s my selfish reason for writing down those stories. I figure as long as someone somewhere is reading them, people will remember Tom Margenau and his wife, Becky Bachstein, and the mostly good life and times they had.

Anyway, as part of that book, I just finished reviewing the story of a trip I took to Poland for the Social Security Administration in 1994, and I thought you might find it interesting.

First, I’ll tell you how the trip came about in the first place. Sometime in early 1994, while I was working at the SSA’s headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, where I was the chief editor of all the publications the agency produced for the public, I was asked to make a presentation to a group of visiting Social Security officials from Poland.

Let me pause right here to talk about that a bit. What were Polish Social Security representatives doing in the United States? As I’ve explained many times in my column, the concept of social insurance, or Social Security as we call it, is certainly not unique to the United States. Almost every country on the planet has a social insurance system in place for its citizens. And many of those countries, especially in Europe, had such programs long before we ever got around to setting up our Social Security system in 1935. In fact, the first Polish Social Security laws were established in 1927.

Almost all these social insurance systems around the world are remarkably similar to ours.

They almost always provide benefits for retirees, for people with disabilities and for the survivors of a worker who has died. And it is not uncommon for Social Security officials from around the world to get together to exchange ideas, to share common concerns and challenges and to discuss possible solutions to those issues.

That’s what Polish Social Security officials were doing at the SSA headquarters back in 1994.

And I was talking to them about the kinds of pamphlets and fact sheets that we produced and distributed to the American public to help our citizens understand the various Social Security programs in the United States.

When lunchtime rolled around, I got to chatting with one of the Polish visitors. On a whim, I asked him if he’d like to take a drive to see the “Little Poland” neighborhood of Baltimore. There is a much more well-known “Little Italy” part of the city that is near the famous Inner Harbor and is very popular with tourists. The almost unknown (except to locals) Little Poland is just a few blocks away from that area.

I really didn’t know the Little Poland neighborhood at all. But I figured we’d just drive around

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to see what we would find. So, off we went. The first Spolecznych training facility. ZUS is the name of place that caught our eye was a small neighborhood their Social Security agency. I was there to teach their public affairs officials about how we promotmeat market. We went in.

The butcher and my Polish Social Security ed our Social Security system to American citizens. official (his name was Jan) were talking to each This was new stuff to ZUS staff because Poland was other in Polish. After a minute or two, they were just coming out from under decades of Soviet domihugging each other and crying. It was very emo- nation. They had to teach Polish citizens how their tional. Jan explained to me that it turned out both recently revamped social insurance system would of them came from the same small town in Poland -- work.

I have so many stories I could tell you about and they had so many memories to share. (I mean, that experience.

But I’m running out of space. So how serendipitous was that?)

Well, the butcher closed up the shop and let me share just this one.

The Polish currency is the zloty. And at the got in my car with Jan and me and took us on a tour of the Little Poland area. We stopped at a couple time I was there, a 100,000 zloty note was worth homes, a Polish church and a few other small busi- about $5. So, for example, I was walking around Ponesses. And most memorably, we ended up at the land with millions of zlotys in my wallet! It was so neighborhood meeting place -- a Polish bar. Jan and strange to go out for a meal and pay a half million all his newfound friends started doing some seri- zlotys!

And I learned something very interesting ous drinking of Polish vodka!

Jan was having a really good time. I kept about the Polish Social Security system. Like here, telling him that we had to get back to the Social Polish senior citizens got their Social Security benSecurity headquarters complex and to our meet- efits once a month. But because at the time, the Polings. But Jan and his friends just kept on drinking ish banking system was essentially non-existent, and talking (all in Polish) and hugging each other. Polish seniors didn’t get checks. They got cash. So Eventually, about 3 p.m. or so, I finally talked a rath- once each month, Polish mail carriers, with armed guards accompanying them, would walk around citer tipsy Jan into going back to work.

When we got there, I was pulled aside by ies and towns throughout Poland with literally trilsome of my superiors and got chewed out. “Where lions of zloty notes in their mailbags. They would the heck were you?” they asked. “Do you know who knock on doors and hand seniors their ZUS benyou were with?” I had just assumed Jan was some efits in cash! I’m sure that today, all these decades midlevel management type like me. But it turns later, the Polish economy is back to normal and out he was the head of the Polish Social Security Polish seniors probably get their ZUS benefits via Fri., Oct. 8, 2021 system, and actually was a top official in the Polish direct deposit just as we get Social Security benefits review carefully.

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setting. There is a filigree band on the border and gold around the scalloped edge. I have searched online and unfortunately, I can’t find any information about my dish or the possible value.

Any assistance you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

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Q: Enclosed is a photo of a porcelain juice set that belonged to my grandmother close to 40 years ago. The set includes a pitcher and six matching glasses. Each piece is marked with an artist’s palette and a brush.

Below that is the letter “L” in a circle. The pitcher and glasses are trimmed in gold and the decorations are pastel flowers in relief and are the same on the front and back. I remember this set throughout my childhood and, therefore, I am pretty certain it is more than 60 years old, and it is in perfect condition.

I hope you can provide me information about the maker, origin and value of my set.

A: Sabin Industries, Inc. made your oval platter. The company was established in McKeesport, Pa., in 1946. They purchased blank pieces of china from other companies and used their own artists to decorate them, usually with transfer print designs. They often decorated their wares with French inspired scenes of couples wearing formal attire in garden settings. The mark on your platter shows the decoration is 22-karat gold. Sabin produced “Crest-0-Gold” series, and a variety of other tableware, ovenware, kitchenware and decorative pieces. In 1967 Chase Enterprises purchased Sabin along with Mt. Clemens Pottery and McCoy Pottery.

Your platter was made around 1950 and would probably be worth $20 to $30.

Sabin Industries purchased blanks from other companies.

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Cider set is an example of American Belleek.

A: Lenox, Inc. made your cider/lemonade set, and they used the mark you described from 1906 to around 1930 on their Belleek wares.

American Belleek was made by several companies and designed to compete with the popular Irish Belleek. They have been located in Trenton, N.J., since 1889. The company was founded as the Ceramic Art Company by Jonathan Coxon Senior and Walter Scott. By 1906, the name was changed to Lenox, Inc. Dinnerware sets have been ordered by several United States presidents, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

Your circa 1930 lemonade set would probably be worth $400 to $600. * * *

Q: This is a photocopy of the mark seen on the back of a small oval dish that I inherited from my grandmother. The dish is decorated with a man and woman in 17th-centur y costumes. They are standing in a garden

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