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...collection of primitive music survived a shipwreck and an automobile smashup before it was brought home by a footloose family-bronzed, youngish Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock, and their plump, jolly mother...
...Most sophisticated and euphonious of the Fahnestock records are those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting...
...Caledonia the Brothers Fahnestock spent a day getting ready to record songs by a particularly promising pair of natives. Finally the natives sang their piece: Oo-Wah, Oo-Wah, over & over. That was all they knew...
...basement last week was another show, even more amusing to the general public. Entitled "New York at the Turn of the Century," it presented: a 1902 single-cylinder Oldsmobile, driven by a couple in dusters, goggles, veils, and beside it the elegant open caleche of Mr. Harris Fahnestock containing a frock-coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph...
Died. William Fahnestock, 78, senior member of the New York Stock Exchange. head of Wall Street's Fahnestock & Co.; of heart disease; at Katonah...