Sugar Violin Plays Music
CONSTRUCTED entirely of sugar by Adolph Hubner, a San Francisco confectioner and sculptor, the novel violin shown above produces excellent music. The instrument was first modeled in cardboard, and finally modeled in sugar with gum tragacanth. A number of famous- violinists have pronounced the instrument excellent in tone.
Modern Mechanix posted this blurb from the April 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions today. Would sugar even have the tensile strength to hold the strings taut enough?
- ‘Ili:
- How would that even work?
- Colin:
- Sweetly.
- ‘Ili:
- Now why did you have to go and do that.
- Colin:
- Too saccharine for you?
- ‘Ili:
- blocked