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Fact #117650

When:

06101903

Short story:

James H. Tann of Lansing, Michigan, USA, is granted US Patent No 740485A in respect of "a stringed instrument having a trumpet-shaped tube communicating with the body of the instrument, by which a purer, sweeter, and more powerful tone is obtained than that possessed by instruments of this character constructed in the usual manner."