Brattleboro Union High School - Colonel Yearbook (Brattleboro, VT)

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:VV T I 'K I - VV: P 4 G G WVITI-I TIIE MUST HEARTFELT THANKS FOR HIS UNTIRING EFFORTS IN BEHALF OF THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES OF B. H. S. AND IN APPRECIATION OF HIS EVERLASTING VVILLINGNESS TO AID US IN ALL OUR UNDERTAKINGS IVE DEDICATE THIS BOOK T0 CARI, H. MILLER ra Q P 4 P lil E R-A AA:

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BRATTLEBORO , I I D I A L , BRATTLEBORO I-nel-I sci-loot v E R M o N T voLuME xxv JUNE, 1930 NUMBER 5 I3IQIfIIDlfNT'I ADDIQEII Alunzui, lvarazzits, friends, 111c'1nI1ers of the faculty, and class111otes.' ACH year for the past forty-six years a class, with its many friends and its honorable fac- ulty, has assembled here, to celebrate the anniversary of the Class day exercises of Brattle- boro High School. As we go on through these exercises, which mark the commencement of a new part of our lives, we realize, more fully, how much our parents, advisers, and teachers have done for us. VVe take this time to express our heartiest appreciation and most sincere gratitude to those who have helped us so much in the foundation of our careers. Classmates-We separate now, each to go his own way and to solve his own problems. It is a great task with which we are affronted, and should be taken in af great way. No minor points should be omittedg at every opportunity we should lend a helping handy we should not neglect any chance to increase our knowledge, or to prove ourselves worthy of this school, which is so dear to us. We are the citizens of tomorrow. This phrase, which has been repeated to us throughout our school life, has a greater meaning to us now. The time is here for us to show how well we have listened to and learned the noble teachings of our faculty. We are the makers of history and may we make a history, which will shine above the successful efforts of our valiant fore- fathers. Let us always remember and live up to our Class Motto, Every man is the architect of his own futurefl Alumni, parents, friends, and members of the faculty, it is with the greatest of pleasure that I, in behalf of the class of 1930, welcome you to the Class Day exercises of Brattleboro High School. -CHESTER SHAW. Cl.Aff DDA-fl 0 N THE KING or INSTRUMENTS HE pipe organ is the most magnificent of all musical instruments. Its indivi- duality, its enthralling tone, and its un- equaled power have brought it to bear the well-deserved title King of Instruments. From the era when the ancient Roman theatres were at the height of their pop- ularity, down through the ages, the proto- types of the modern instrument have taken an important place in the rising institutions of civilization. The earliest known wind intrument not blown by the human lungs was a device constructed by an Alexandrian barber, Ctesibius, who, during the third century BC., constructed a contrivance by which a trumpet could be blown by forcing air through it. Hero, an engineer of the times, applied the invention to a row of trumpets representing a musical scale in such a manner that any one of the trumpets could be sounded by pushing a button under- neath itg air was pumped through the in- strument by several slaves, and kept at a constant pressure by water, whence the name hydraulus. This instrument was the precursor of the pipe organ. It rapidly gained much popularity, both for its novelty and for the powerful sounds pro- duced. During the next few centuries the hydrau- lus was improved and enlarged, oftentimes containing as many as sixty pipes arranged in three rows, corresponding to the modern stop. It was early noted that pleasing con- trasts were obtained when two or three notes were sounded together, later the idea occurred that several notes might be played from a single key, producing a chord. This was the beginning of harmony, and organs were soon built consisting of several hun- dred pipes, thirty or forty of different pitch for each key. Two required to pound the heavy keys with their fists, and a score or more the bellows. The sound enormous, but certainly of screaming tone. Nevertheless such in- organists were slaves to raise produced was 3. Vefy COZLYSC, struments as these were used until the fourteenth century when many improve- ments were designed. Indeed, the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- turies constituted the period of the most prolific improvement in the history of the famous instrument. Heretofore no prac- tical method had been introduced of con- trolling the power of the instrument, and the performer was obliged to use the full organ all the time. There came from the Netherlands a device whereby each set of pipes might be independently shut off from the wind supply and tlms silenced, and about the same time the slider action was reinvented, which was a more efhcient means to the same end. The latter might be considered one of the most important improvements in organ building, for upon it rests the possibility of the great variety of tone color, a characteristic in which the organ reigns supreme. The mammoth key- boards of the older instruments were also Cliontinued on Page 463