Word: fluted
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...bound for chow. He is going to the gym to cut an album. Though Sonny has been in prison for all but 42 months of the past 20 years, he is, at age 42, at the peak of a spectacular musical career. Master of the piano, flute, bass, guitar and sax, he also composes, arranges and conducts. Lately he has led his band in three separate dates at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. He and his band recently toured the state to rave reviews and tearful standing ovations...
Ginsberg and friend sing the "Introduction" with mad abandon accompanied by guitar and flute. The melody is so natural and tailored to the poem that it becomes easier to believe that Blake did sing this happy song into Ginsberg's ear, except that Ginsberg claims this particular tune for his own musical talents...
...supply of wind from the bellows and each produces only one single tone. What Zacher worked out was a way to vary the flow of air and thereby produce a family of tones from a single pipe, in much the same way that different sounds are drawn from the flute by blowing hard or soft. By opening up new musical pipelines, as it were, Zacher has encouraged many experimental composers to rethink the possibilities of writing for the organ...
...publicized, but short-lived coalition known as Blind Faith. The foundation of the group-singer Roger Chapman and guitarist John Whitney-remained, however, and they created a new Family. They eliminated Grech's cello and King's oft-times superfluous saxophone, and supplanted them with vibes and an electric flute...
Apparently the results were too obscure for AM radio and perhaps not opaque enough for WBCN. The album was a much less driving sort of rock. Of course it had guitars, bass and drums, but in combination with flute, violins, saxophone and vibes these instruments became less important. At any rate, it was before its time and, unfortunately, sold poorly...