Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meteorological Station, perched on the summit of Great Blue Hill in greater Boston, has continued uninterrupted weather observations for fifty years. Equipment includes pilot balloon apparatus, radiation receivers, and an instrument for recording night cloudiness besides the more familiar, thermometers, hygrometers, and barometers. Sub-stations are maintained on Mt. Washington. Mt. Wachusett, Mt. Monadnock, and in Cambridge...
...notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black wind instrument called a recorder. Lotta Van Buren had so performed twice a week since July, would continue through September. She organized the Deep River Festival of Music, furnished the old instruments, trained her young performers to old music, much of which she had dug up in the Library of Congress...
...slow upturn. U. S. piano sales last year were 44,000; this year they may reach 60,000. And last week when 2,000 people gathered in Chicago for three conventions, the National Association of Music Merchants, the National Association of Sheet Music Dealers, the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers Association, even the piano men began feeling allegro giocoso. President Edwin R. Weeks of the Music Merchants blithely buried the Jazz Age, declaring that "dreamy, tuneful melodies" are now the thing. President Robert A. Schmitt of the Sheet Music Dealers said: "People are singing again in family music groups. They...
...expression of the movement which caused makers long ago to scale down grand pianos to baby grands, uprights to pianettes. Measuring 45 in. high, 60 in. wide and 25 in. deep, the Vertichord is essentially a grand piano upended, combining the long strings and large sounding board of that instrument with the compactness of an upright, the grace of a spinet. Cost of the Vertichord: $295 to $445. Similar instruments are being marketed by other firms: the Vertical Grand, the Betsy Ross Spinet, the Spinet Grand...
Harpsichords. In Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium one night last week swart Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi turned on a little-known facet of his exuberant talent. A harpsichordist for 26 years who has studied with the most publicized exponent of that ancient instrument, Mme Wanda Landowska, he tinkled bravely through a Haydn concerto, conducting the orchestra on the side as all performers did in the harpsichord's heyday, the first half of the 18th Century...