Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how brisk business was, Bill McSorley would leave the bar and bang the bottom of a tin pan. "The fat cats would come loping up, like leopards, from all corners of the saloon." If Bill wanted to close up while customers were still drinking their ale, he would drum on the bar with both fists, shout: "Now, see here, gents! I'm under no obligoddamnation to stand here all night while you baby them drinks...
...last week. The opening and closing selections--both 20th century arrangements of 18th century compositions--furnished an interesting contrast between the idioms of the two centuries, and between different methods of arrangement. adaptation of a harpsichord suite by Dominico Scarlatti left the original melody and harmony unaltered, merely adding drum, tambourine, triangle, and xylophone to the traditional 18th century orchestra. Even those additions did not alter the character of the composition markedly, for these tinkling and rattling instruments gave an orchestral approximation of the harpsichord tone...
...With tongue in cheek, they demanded their prepaid bonus immediately, for a war into which they would not drag the U.S. The Chicago University chapter offered the slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death's-heads, the drum major a crutch. The campaign landed the V.F.W. on the nation's front pages. The U.S. that had made Merchants of Death a best-seller cheered; veterans of World War I jeered. Exploded James E. Van Zandt, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (and now a Congressman...
...signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets. Sennet may have derived from "seven," perhaps meant a seven-note trumpet call. Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound...
...Alton) Rinker can remember when he and his friend Crosby had a band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues...