Word: instrumentality
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...range of top players, including a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a Scottish national champion, and an all- Ireland fiddle champ. Working only on commission, Childs says he finishes five or six violins in a given year. He says it is not a simple matter of making an instrument, but suiting the type of sound to a musician’s personality...
...fiddlers that play on Childs’ violins—called Childsplay—gathers in Cambridge for a concert series, led by Childs, beaming, in the center. “Not all violin makers will agree, but I believe that the soul of the maker goes into the instrument,” he says. “You want whatever it is you’re expressing to live beyond your own life. When I have everyone gathered around me, it helps me feel that...
...down loops?prerecorded short riffs by drums, bass, piano and so on. There are some 1,000 loops to choose from on the basic software and 2,000 more on the $99 add-on, Jam Pack. Here's the clever bit: the loops are arranged not just by instrument but also under mood-based headings such as "Relaxed," "Intense," "Cheerful" and so on. Click and drag your loops into the score, and they become interactive. You can stretch and splice them like lumps of Play-Doh. In just 10 minutes I found I could intuitively assemble a thumping dance ditty...
Colgan acknowledges Massino's stolid charisma, his use of power as an instrument of fear. "If Joey said something, people jumped. They wanted to be endeared to Joey," he says. "If they didn't do what he said, he'd whack them. And if he even thought you were an informant, he'd have you killed." Colgan managed to persuade Ray Wean--a Bonanno man so huge that when Colgan once arrested him, he couldn't get the cuffs around Wean's thick wrists--to be an undercover informant and later testify for the prosecution at Massino's '87 trial...
...criminal mastermind bent on separating a casino from its take. To this end, Hanks' character, Professor G.H. Dorr, rents a room in a house owned by Marva Munson (the splendid Irma P. Hall). He thereby obtains access to the basement; ostensibly it's a rehearsal space for his period-instrument group, but actually it's a headquarters for a dig toward riches...