Sugar Violin Plays Music (Apr, 1931)
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.
I’ed think getting a decent shot going at speed would be impossible...
I’ed never be able to play this thing, I’ed lick it to death!
Comment by Hirudinea — May 18, 2011 @ 9:38 am
I find it a bit hard to believe that it actually plays. I seriously doubt that it can be tuned at all because there is tremendous tension on the neck when those strings are brought to pitch. I can’t believe that sugar would be able to tolerate that much force. Yes, I do believe that he made it of sugar but that it can be played so that professional violinists would think it excellent in tone . . . not a chance. As the car talk guys would say Bo o o o o o GUS!
Rick
Comment by rick s. — May 18, 2011 @ 11:25 am
Hiru: Good luck with that
If it’s made from sugar fried in high temperature as I suspect, it tastes awful (as anything half-burned does) and doesn’t actually melt from the moisture. It feels like plastic and is very hard stuff, so you probably couldn’t even get a bite from it. That last one was also for Rick.
Comment by Jari — May 19, 2011 @ 11:27 am