Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chickering, Knabe, and Mason & Hamlin have been manufactured in the U. S. since 1823 (when the first instrument made by Jonas Chickering brought $275), 1837, and 1854 respectively...
...Bach Toccata and Fuge the basses had a new, if perhaps unneeded, sonority and strength. They had previously speculated about a strange black cabinet which stood in the orchestra. A few of the curious investigated afterward, discovered that the cabinet was a variety of the Theremin ether-wave instrument (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928, et seq.) being used as a regular, recognized member of the orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin in that its tone is controlled by a fingerboard (rather than by waves...
...provision has been made for radio broadcasting but I suppose that the instrument is open to this use, although I have no definite information as to the requirements...
...whole situation has been built up on the assumption that there is nothing illegitimate in the use of war as an instrument of national policy, and as a necessary corollary that position and the rights of neutrals are entirely independent of the circumstances of any war which may be in progress...
...boxlike, ether-wave instrument invented and played upon (motion of the hands before the instrument affects the ether waves, regulates pitch, tone, volume) by Russian Leon Theremin (TIME, Sept. 30). His recent sale of his patent to the Radio Corp. of America accounts for the new joint name given the instrument...