Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule the Kremlin's diplomacy decided last week that the time had come to drive a wedge among Catholics. They chose Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet Government, as the instrument, and a recent Foreign Policy Association report on Vatican policy as a handy starting point. Wrote Izvestia...
...first tryin, I asked my patient to bring his flute and play for me, with the new teeth in position. . . . Trouble was discovered almost at once. After playing for a few moments, my musical patient laid his instrument aside with an air of utter resignation. 'Doctor, that depression in the center of the palate is no good for me-the air becomes stranded in the hollow. I can't produce a normal legato...
Lionel Hampton, nimble-fingered Negro bandleader and vibraharpist,* joyfully admitted that he moans and grunts while hammering his instrument. Said he: "Some people say I sound like a billy goat...
...enthusiasts for harpsichord music are a small, fervent, growing body. John Challis is probably the only man in the world who, despite war, continues to manufacture the instrument.* Like most people interested in harpsichords, he is irritated by the lay notion that the instrument is a sort of Pleistocene piano. The true ancestor of the piano is not the harpsichord but the dulcimer, a more primitive stringed instrument played like a xylophone, with little hammers held in the hands. The harpsichord's strings are not hammered but plucked with quills or leather plectra (picks...
...powerful enough to be heard in large U.S. concert halls. He introduced many improvements into harpsichord manufacture, utilized modern materials like bakelite, aluminum and nylon. "I am not an antiquarian," he explains, "my idea is simply to carry on the manufacturing of harpsichords where it left off when the instrument went out of popularity at the end of the 18th Century...