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...piano in a smoothly flowing performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, then stood up to conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 with crisp authority. Such experience helps him as a pianist, he says, because "piano music is so symphonic. The piano is a neutral-sounding instrument on which you have to orchestrate the other sounds-the oboe, the horn, the strings...
Pennies for Progress. Designed and built by TRW systems, each OGO is a refrigerator-size box with 14 simultaneously operating instruments pointing in five directions. To maintain the proper altitude for the instruments, the core contains sensors and controls that are used to stabilize the craft. One face al ways points toward earth, another toward the sun, another away from the earth, one away from the sun, and a fifth in the direction the OGO travels. When two 20-ft. instrument booms and two solar panels are fully extended, the OGOs are 49 ft. long and almost 20 ft. wide...
Other companies, such as Wurlitzer Co. and Chicago Musical Instrument Co., have diversified into a variety of musical instruments, but Aeolian has stuck to its specialty and produced some 700 kinds of pianos, more than any other company. For all its wide range, there is no compromise with tradition. As one Aeolian executive describes piano-making: "Anything different from what Grandpa built is suspect...
...aeolian harp dates back to Greek mythology. It was a box-shaped musical instrument with stretched strings through which Aeolus, the god of wind, blew dulcet tones...
...School of Public Health, Dr. Bernard Lown, Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and developer of the Cardioverter--an electronic instrument which corrects abnormal heart rhythms--has been promoted to Associate Professor of Cardiology in Public Health...