Rudy Starita And His New Octarimba (1936)

Titles read: ’Now Pathe Pictorial has pleasure in presenting - Rudy STARITA and his new “Octarimba“ In melodies of long ago’. Pathe Studio, London. Several shots of Rudy Starita playing his new instrument, the ’Octarimba’, which looks like a wooden xylophone. Commentator says Rudy used it for a broadcast performance only recently, and this is the first time he has been filmed using it. It sounds like a shimmery glockenspiel. Two musicians, one on the steel lap guitar and another on the accordion, accompany Rudy as he plays a medley of old tunes - ’Roses of Picardy’, ’Love’s Old Sweet Song’ and ’First Call of Spring’. FILM ID:1656.3 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gau