MUSIC AS A CURE FOR BALDNESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 12

MUSIC AS A CURE FOR BALDNESS.

VIOLIN AND DOOBLE-BASS AS HAIR PRESERVERS'. "If you are bald, learn the violin," is one of tho morals to be drawn from some startling; statements mado by M. Henri do Parville, quoted in the "Musical News." M. do Parvillo'a line of reasoning is that, as inusio exercises a manifest notion upon tho nervous system, which itself also aifocts the nutrition of tho • bodily tissues, it eccms reasonable to conclude that, in o genoral way, milsic lias an influence upon the physiological individuality. Musicians, it appears, are bald in the proportion of 11 per cent., but among instrumentalists the influence of musical vibrations make themselves felt in hvo opposite directions, according to the class of instrument. Thus, while string: instruments prevent and arrest tho falling of tho hair, the brass instruments exercise tho most deadly influence upon the scalp. The piano and the violin, especially the former, have an undeniably preservative effect. All male pianists, says M. do Parville, havo an Ysaye-like head of hair. The violoncello, the harp, and tho double bass all partake of the beneficial effects of the piano; the oboe is inferior to the doublo bass, wliilo the clarinet and the flute havo but a very slender effect, and towards one's fiftieth year tho hair begins to thin very perceptibly. On the other hand, tho effect of the brass is deplorable. The cornet and the horn despoil tho most hirsute man of his locks with surprising speed and certainty. The trombone, however, is tho most deleterious of all, for in five or 6ix years the player has lost at least CO per cent, of his hair. Thi3 disagreeable result is known as "Fanfare Baldness," because tho evil particularly punishes regimental musicians.