Word: flute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Universalist preacher, Bush feels most at home in a Cape Cod fishing boat. Possessed of insatiable curiosity and a prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful farmer and turkey raiser, is a fascinated and fascinating lecturer, and as a scientist has contributed substantially to progress in applied electricity and electronics...
...long and they have nasty spaces . . . between them. I have no support for the mouthpiece . . . and the air flows right out between the necks of the teeth. Now, doctor, can you close up these spaces . . . and grind out some sort of shelf . . . to accommodate the neck of the flute...
...understood. My patient cared little about esthetics or mastication at that moment. All he wanted was to be able to play his flute. . . . I finally made him a lower denture with clasps. . . . The patient, elated by this success, decided to have the upper remade...
...first tryin, I asked my patient to bring his flute and play for me, with the new teeth in position. . . . Trouble was discovered almost at once. After playing for a few moments, my musical patient laid his instrument aside with an air of utter resignation. 'Doctor, that depression in the center of the palate is no good for me-the air becomes stranded in the hollow. I can't produce a normal legato...
...playing his instrument again, my patient was once again a picture of gloom. 'Doctor, my legato has improved . . . but now I lose my wind too quickly.' I partially closed up the arch in the bicuspid region. 'Fine,' said my patient after another experiment with his flute. [Then] the patient suddenly stopped and his face registered horror. 'Doctor, I'm losing my staccato...