Word: instrument
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Kalem's search for thoroughbreds started while he was growing up in Maiden, Mass. His Greek parents, Protestant fundamentalists from Asia Minor, called the stage "an instrument of the devil." This attitude naturally created a forbidden-fruit temptation, and young Ted sneaked bites at every opportunity. But it was to be a long road to his permanent aisle seat. At Harvard he majored in sociology, graduating cum laude. During World War II he won a Bronze Star in the Pacific. At the Christian Science Monitor he reviewed books, an occupation he followed during his first ten years at TIME...
With any concert involving organ in Mem Church there are serious problems for the audience. The Fisk instrument has two entirely separate characters. In Appleton Chapel, it is a magnificently powerful baroque organ. But for the majority of listeners in the nave of the Churc, the top-heavy registrations are not backed with sufficient fundamental tones to carry through sucha a large structure. The result is exactly what happened last Wednesday: the small group in Appleton is far more satisfied with the playing than the bulk of the audience who are listening, essentially, to a scaled-down version. The performers...
...Giovanni Viviani were two minor seventeenth-century composers whose works blend into the amorphous mass of early Italian baroque music. The musical content of three of their sonatas was so slender that all attention was drawn to the majestic sound of the trumpet. Baroque trumpet is a far different instrument from its contemporary counterpart. A narrow bore gives it a piercing sound, and pitch production is based on the natural overtone series, produced solely by lip inflection without the aid of keys. The result is a melodic scale available only in the third octave above fundamental pitch--a very high...
Little did the fans realize that this instrument for their protection would be used against them...
...E.S.T., on Saturday, Nov. 13, the U.S. entry in the Martian sweepstakes-a 1,300-lb. windmill-shaped instrument package called Mariner 9-will begin a series of crucial maneuvers. Acting on preprogrammed commands sent from the huge, 210-ft. Goldstone tracking antenna in California's Mojave Desert, Mariner's onboard computer will ignite the spacecraft's small liquid-fuel engine for a precise 15-minute "burn," reducing the ship's velocity from about 11,000 m.p.h. to just over 8,000 m.p.h. As it slows down, Mariner will be captured by Martian gravity, thereby becoming...