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...Donald Hatch Andrews, 32, Johns Hopkins chemist, announced last week that he has transposed the inaudible high pitch of atomic vibrations into piano sounds. The quavers of grain alcohol thus became a harmonic chord out of which Professor Andrews composed a pretty melody. Water's translated sound was a soft murmur, wood alcohol sounded harsh and sharp, gasoline was a crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Atomic Melody | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...gracious address which His Majesty the King has just delivered strikes a responsive chord in our hearts. ... As Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes I have the honor to propose that the Prime Minister should be appointed as Chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Indian Conference | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

There are places in the banjo club for those who play chord and tenor banjos, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums, piano, trombones, flutes and basses. The mandolin club includes mandolin, mandola, mandocellos, guitars, flutes, clarinet, clarinet, violin, 'cello, basses; in the vocal club there are first and second tenors, baritones, and basses. Also any specialists at solos on instruments or singing, clog dancing, sleight of hand or ventriloquists will find an opportunity to show their acts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUB TRIALS BEING HELD TODAY, TOMORROW | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...desk drawer ("Just getting a breath of fresh air"). These buffoons and Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer is marred only by awkward elbows, are the chief contributors to a pleasant diversion which must still be mainly credited to the exuberant chord progressions of Brother George Gershwin, the deliberately bad or complex rhymes of Brother Ira. Nancy's Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...Flute, Violin, Violoncello, and Harpsichord 2. Prelude and Invention, C major Bach Polonaise, G minor Bach Air and Variations, E major Handel Alla Turca Harpsichord Mozart 3. Airs and Dances Flute Gluck 4. Sonata, G major Violoncello Locatelli 5. Concerts Royaux Couperin and Rameau and Harpsi- Flute, Violin, Violoncello, chord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITING CONCERTS TO COMMENCE THIS EVENING | 12/4/1929 | See Source »

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