Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chilling material given Comic Bert Lahr and Patter Merchant Doc Rockwell leaves them no choice but to freeze with it. Although Ballerina Alicia Markova rises above an unexciting Stravinsky ballet to display her dazzling technique, she misses the final magic of her dancing. Benny Goodman, as usual, toots his clarinet with equal skill in a hot ensemble and a classical solo...
Fingerboards and Filters. The emiriton. which produces tones much like those of the violin, cello, bassoon, clarinet and oboe, has several advantages over previous electro-musical instruments (such as the theremin). Because it is played by running one finger up and down a free fingerboard, tones are produced strictly by finesse of touch, not by mechanical means. Because it is a single-voiced instrument that does not play chords, each instrument in the ensemble is a personality, like each instrument in a string quartet, and lends itself to a great variety of color and volume...
...current then flows through a filter which regulates the timbre. This filter is run by a miniature keyboard and works like button-tuning on radio sets; by pressing one button, instead of getting WLW or KNX, the pusher gets cello or clarinet. Next the current flows into the amplifier, controlled by a foot pedal, finally comes out of the loudspeaker. If done properly, it comes out as music...
...valley was inhabited by civilized, seven-foot-tall penguins who lived in a "Penguinry" of neat stone houses. The grave "chairbird" of the penguin parliament waved his flipper at the explorer. A choir of tuneful penguins rippled off "fluting sounds" of welcome that reminded the explorer of the clarinet works of Johannes Brahms. One smart penguin soon learned to speak a sort of penguin-English. "Being a bird," he clacked, "of course I think we are the form in which Life is best expressed." The explorer soon came to realize that this was no mere "bird-fancy." For the penguins...
...Nick's, where Pee Wee comes out at night and Miff Mole looks at his watch every five minutes to make sure that he doesn't play overtime ... Then to Cafe downtown for a word with Josh White ... Benny Morton's band just moved in with some tasty clarinet by Prince Robinson...