Word: glockenspiel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past 42 years and considers the world's best. But Chicago's is still a runt-only four manuals and 126 stops-compared to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall monster, which has ten manuals and 364 stops, including a bass drum, glockenspiel, Chinese gong, xylophone, a grand piano, harp and two bird whistles...
...realize that Harvard's Band functions as a Club, with lifelong membership privileges. Marching across the field today along with the undergraduates will be an official of the Harvard Trust Company who has played glockenspiel for more than 14 years, as well as three practicing physicians who revert to Joe College each weekend in the Fall. This timeless spirit is the invisible quantity which makes the boys get religion and perform what admirers have termed "the Saturday afternoon miracle...
...Strike a New Note Field is one minute rolling up laughs as a cockney cornet player ("a weedy little buffer . . . half a bully and half a cringer"), the next minute as a suave, Oxford-bred musician who performs on a ramshackle glockenspiel. As a poetry-spouting drunk, he garnishes a skit that contains the show's other drawing card, London's best-known bottle-hymn, I'm Going to Get Lit-Up When the Lights Go Up in London...
...vibraharp (or vibraphone, or "vibes") is a modern variety of glockenspiel (metal xylophone) played with felt hammers and fitted with electrical resonators which impart a mechanical vibrato to its bell-like tones...
...Information, Please, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny. You are likely to play a musical instrument yourself, and you admit you play it pretty well (the odds are it's the piano, but it could be the violin, clarinet or saxophone, or even the tipple, zither or glockenspiel). You go to the movies only once every other week or so (whenever there's a picture you really want to see) and once or twice a week you have friends in for dinner or bridge (you don't like restaurant meals nearly as much as those your...