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IHL! Thursday. Sent. 16. 1976 Philadelphia Innnirpr Prices don't make cattlemen happy EARLY BIRD POOL COVER A I ABOVE IN GROUND QflVF YM 11 I (2 YR. WARRANTY) WHfC wf.

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9-5; SUN, 10-3 Associd.ed Press Terenzio Riegel fashic-os violin in his workshop He'd rather make violins than play Associated Press 1 1 AR RISBURG Beef prices aren't, making the consumers or the cattlemen in Pennsylvania very happy these days. The housewife who pays S2 or more for a slice of meat probably has little sympathy for the beef rancher who she "figures must be salting away the profits. That attitude makes the cattleman even unhappier than the prices. As of last August, he was paid only about 36 cents a pound for beef that was sold to you as a S2 T-bone steak, the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service said. Beef raisers lost anywhere from S75 to S200 per head of cattle this year, according to government figures, but their low prices never quite made it to the supermarket shelves.

Agriculture specialists call the problem the farm-retail price gap, which increased 40 percent in three years. That menas if the farmer's price drops by SI, the price the consumer pays drops only 40 cents. The rest goes for increases in labor and transportation to take the beef from farm to market. "The farmer doesn't have flexibility," said Robert Coleman of the Pennsylvania Cattlemen's Association. "He takes the beef to market and gets a bid price which is irrespective of the money he put into the cattle, it isn't practical to refuse the bid and take his cattle back home." While everyone else is getting cost-of-living increases, "The price the farmer gets for cattle is the same or less than in the 1950s," said Dr.

Lowell Wilson, professor of animal science at Penn Slate. If that price gap continues, it could eventually mean a beef shortage and higher prices for consumers, state officials say. "If you had three or four bad years, what would you do? You'd let the barn go idle, too," said Edward Osborne, director of markets for the state Department of Agriculture. "We've seen smaller cattlemen shut down 10 or 20 percent would be a good figure," Wilson said in an interview. "But more importantly, fewer are getting involved in raising beef." The state has a lot of land good only for beef and use of it could enlarge the stale cuttle industry, Wilson said, "but nobody's going to put money into it if they can't make money from it." The Pennsylvanians will have to depend more for beef raised in the west, Wilson said.

"More and more consumer dollars will be spent for I ECHELON MALL "a 1 PLYMOUTH MEETING MAU 15 JuUl i y. OXFORD VAILFY MALL fei 7 '3 GRANITE RUN MALL ri "The classical way of making violins by hand hasn't changed in 300 years," Riegel says. "If you work at it every day it takes at least a month for basic wood carving construction. And then another month to apply the varnish. You can put up to 20 coats on an instrument, and each coat must dry at least two days.

I make my own varnish, working out a special formula over the last eight years." Such handcrafted instruments can run as high as $15,000, depending on the reputation of the maker. Machine-made violins can be bought for less than S100. "Good wood is scarce," he says, "and all of it is imported from Europe because there is less rainfall there. Rainfall makes wood grow faster, retain too much resin and stay heavy. If wood is heavy it won't vibrate.

"In violins, violas, cellos and basses, the back, the sides and the scroll are made of maple. The top is spruce. "I have stockpiled enough wood for a lifetime, enough for maybe 500 instruments. If I make that many in my lifetime I would consider myself, very lucky." Riegel, who has been fixing violins since he was 13 and is mostly self-taught, opted for his unusual career against the advice of his father, Samuel, who is professor of education art at Millersville State College. "I had been playing the violin and viola since about 10, and I liked to fool with them, open them up, see what was inside," he says.

"I decided I'd rather make them than play them. It's more creative. 1 still play a little with orchestras in Pottsville. "Dad wasn't happy I took this profession. Yet the first year I opened my shop I made more than a teacher made.

It was less restrictive, less confining. I worked at my own pace, at my own time." Profits were plowed back into the business for tools and supplies. "People are always bringing in old instruments and think they're worth a lot of money," Riegel says. "Unfortunately, I never found any of value, even a good copy of a Stradi- varius." Lee Linder Associated Press VALLEY VIEW, Rie-gel's real first name is Terry. But in this rural village he goes by the Italian name he adopted while, learning his trade.

Terenzio Riegel is one of perhaps no more than 100 people in the world who make violins by hand. In ibis country, there probably are no more than a dozen violin makers. (Two of them are in the Philadelphia area, Helmut Keller and Sergio i'eresson.) Riegel, 29 and a bachelor, has made 14 violins and violas. He has orders for a dozen more, including his first cello. "It's a passion I enjoy," he says.

"Once you make one or two you want to do more and more." Riegel gets S1.500 for a violin crafted from his own mold, and S2.500 for a special copy of another instument. Violas and cellos bring double the price. "Right now my prices are low because I'm just new in the business," he says. "And my repair prices are also low, I am not well known enough to get calls for instuments from the big artists. If you're good enough, they'll come to you." Riegel, born in Sunbury, decided to settle in this northeastern Pennsylvania village near Pottsville because his parents came from here.

"It's quiet, there's no pressure, and you can work carefully," he says. "It also reminds me a little of Italy, where I learned, with the mountains and valleys. "I'm backed up right now with three months of repairs. Most of the violin business is from out-of-state professional people, orchestra people." Riegel's workroom is in back of a store where, mostly for the locals, he sells pianos, guitars, mandolins, and sheet music. The walls are filled with wood-cutting tools, the cabinets hold all kinds of violin parts and the shelves are stocked with chunks of seasoned maple and spruce.

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ANNUAL BAZAAR AND CHICKEN BARBECUE DINNER: The Penn-sauken Historical Society sponsors the event to be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday on the grounds of the Historic Buggough-Dover House on Dover Lane, off Haddonfield Road in Pennsauken. There will be a "this and that" table, plants, wood and mineral carvings, books, candles and felt creations for sale all day. A fortune teller will be on hand to make predictions.

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Free. AWARDS PRESENTATION COCKTAIL PARTY: The American Civic Liberties Union will present awards to Emerson L. Darnell, D. Joan Sampieri, Peter J. O'Connor and Yol-anda Aguiler de Neely, for their significant contributions to Civil Liberties at a cocktail party at 8 p.m.

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NEW VISITOR'S CENTER AT WASHINGTON CROSSING STATE PARK: The new center houses displays from the Museum of the Citizen Soldier, Revolutionary War materials, pictorial displays and engravings. There is an audio-visual program with electric maps and slides as well as a 14 minute narration of the historic events that took place from December 25, 1776 to January 3, 1777. The Visitor's Center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday.

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