Word: harps
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...divided? Twenty years a-growing, 20 years in blossom, 20 years a-stooping, and 20 years declining. From his first 20 years Maurice O'Sullivan recalls many wonderful things, and the swing and the lilt of his words make you think they were sung to the harp of Tara. When he was less than a year old his mother died, dear God bless her soul and the souls of the dead, so Maurice was sent to a school in Dingle since his older brothers and sisters had little more sense in them than he had at the time...
...strains of "Hymn to the Night" while the Men's Singing Club of Portland sang the words: ''Softly now the light of day fades upon my sight away. . . ." Large among the floral pieces which banked the music room was one in the shape of a harp, on which roses marked the notes of the first bars of the hymn. In several cities seven other pipe organs, gifts of Mr. Curtis, whispered the same peaceful melody that afternoon as his body was borne to its grave in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. Cyrus Curtis' death was a sequel...
...motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand up and do a buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life and humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through...
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...
...Grofé had been persuaded to write Tabloid by his friend George Clarke, restless, hard-driving city editor of the New York Daily Mirror. Grofé visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar...