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...hybrid electric sitar and an electric bazouki, both designed for the Dan-electro Corp. by Guitarist Vincent Bell and clearly aimed at capitalizing on the Indian music fad that is sweeping across the U.S. pop scene. Bell's sitar is really an ordinary six-string guitar with a special bridge and a set of twelve sympathetically vibrating strings to reproduce the sitar's characteristic "buzzy" sound and echoing overtones; the instrument can also be fingered and chorded just like a guitar...
...secretary of the domestic-appliances division of a trade organization called the National Association of Electro-Technical Industries, Bruno Bonarini acts as spokesman for Italy's thriving home-appliance manufacturers. Lately, Bonarini speaks as if he were wearing the purple. "We have conquered the European market," he observes imperially. "Now we are beginning to look to new horizons-the U.S. in the West and the Soviet Union in the East." Considering what Bonarini's legions have accomplished in Europe, West and East had better watch...
Surprise Momentum. Not everyone gets a charge out of Stockhausen's electro-innovations. But the upper echelons of electronic composers, which include America's Vladimir Ussachevsky and Milton Babbitt, consider him the most inventive. French Composer Pierre Boulez, who is himself pretty handy with a modulator, says flatly that "Stockhausen is the greatest living composer, and the only one whom I recognize as my peer." Stockhausen tends to agree. Aggressively indifferent to criticism, he is interested only in exploring every corner of the aural landscape. He has completely done away with traditional music forms, conceives his works instead...
...school after two years and, at 19, talked his way into the chief engineer's job at the Lyradion Co., one of the early makers of radio-phonographs. "In those days," says Freimann, "the only people who knew anything about radio were kids." Freimann eventually formed his own Electro-Acoustic Products Co., where his chief supplier of loudspeakers was a struggling outfit named Magnavox. After the two companies merged in 1938, Freimann persuaded the loss-troubled Magnavox management to switch from component to consumer production, stick to a quality line, sell at fixed prices through carefully selected franchised dealers...
Almost all the results are automatically coded for the IBM cards; the electro cardiogram and chest X ray, however, have to be read by human experts...