Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion of the exercises in the Stadium, supper will be served with music for dancing by Ruby Newman's orchestra in Eliot and Lowell Houses while in Winthrop and Leverett the supper will be accompanied by Hawaiian guitar music. The supper music will be interrupted for the Instrumental Clubs' concert but will be continued again at 9.30 o'clock for dancing until midnight...
...Bullfrog Blues"; Mandolin Club: "Blue Kentuck Moon", "Dark Eyes", "Volga Boatman", and "Selections from Gilbert and Sullivan"; Vocal: "Gay Nineties Medley", "Keep in the Middle of the Road", "Bonnie Dundee", "Australia", and "Johnny Harvard". Three presentations will be made in the way of special numbers; a violin solo, a guitar quartet, and a magician...
...little room, swells out through the casements, and drifts down the sunny street. Men turn from their tasks and listen, as to a Pied Piper; old fingers and young ache to play. Someone in the fields takes up a fiddle; a fine gentleman blows the dust from his guitar. A street boy whistles; soldiers sing. All the street is become a gypsy orchestra. It is happy Vienna, Schubert's town, and the streets are filled with his song...
John saved enough money tending flowers to buy a guitar?a $6.25 instrument from a mail-order house. People find it hard to believe, but that same guitar is the only real instrument the Mills boys use. With it they had their first success, in radio station WLW, Cincinnati...
...that the ukulele is not a musical instrument. The Federation, it seemed, had never even been asked to recognize it before. Yet the ukulele does not have to be played in a hit-or-miss fashion just because it is smaller and cheaper than its cousin, the union-approved guitar. Unlike the harmonica, lowliest of wind instruments, the ukulele has all the chromatics, can be played...