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...every trumpeter well knows, to sustain a note of clarity, volume and high pitch through 53 inches of drawn-brass tubing requires the lung power of a bull moose and the finesse of a brindled gnu. What few trumpeters know is that while tootling they approximate the effects of "a formidable Valsalva maneuver," i.e., a hard nose-blow with nostrils and mouth blocked. To find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including...
...matter of fact, it's difficult to see how they could have packed any more flora and fauna in one picture. With natives seven feet tall, and stampeding herds of zebra and gnu, the show is bound to be of more than passing interest...
...rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...
...lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which...
...good & bad gnus come from South Africa. They are also called wildebeests. The white tailed gnu is called a black wildebeest. Members of the antelope family (in which the U. S. antelope is not included), gnus do not know that their nearest U. S. kin is the wily mountain goat...