Word: diapasoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, a thriving, purposeless organization of men who at some time or other manned the pump-handle of an organ. Last week's meeting was typical of most (there have been nine), but it was bigger & better. Presiding was the founder and Grand Diapason, spare, bald-pated Author Chester Werntz ("diet") Shafer. As usual, most of the hilarity was provided by the "business" report, weightily and pompously delivered by Author Moore, Vox Humana (and Acting Tremolo) of the Guild. Vox Humana Moore pointed with pride to progress in one of the Guild...
...application to the wall. In 1929 the political explosion that brought death to thousands of Mexican soldiers landed Artist Orozco in New York where he was adopted wholeheartedly by Miss Alma Reed, operator of the since defunct Delphic Studio. Exhibitions were given, the organ of critical praise swelled in diapason. The West's view of Orozco, a view of one of the finest things he has done, was made possible by the removal of some scaffolding from the dining hall of Pomona College, 40 mi. south of Los Angeles. Last winter, head of Pomona's art department...
...calculated to impress its audiences with the fact that Mormonism is a successful religion if ever there was one. Accompanying the pageant would be music from one of Mormondom's most cherished treasures- its mighty organ. In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos. Glue was made by boiling strips of cattle and buffalo hides. Recently reconstructed, the instrument, with 5,500 pipes, is among the world's largest, draws comparisons with those in Frieburg, London's Crystal Palace, Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Designed...