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Saunders Lecture Well Attended

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Over 100 people attended the first lecture on the physics of music by Professor Saunders in Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon. Professor Saunders demonstrated a number of kinds of vibrations with his experimental apparatus in discussing the subject of "Vibrations". He showed a model of the action of the hammer in a piano and declared that anyone could duplicate the tones of Rachmaninoff or Paderewski if he only was able to press on the keys with the right amount of strength. The subject of his next lecture on Wednesday will be "Waves".

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