Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the papers which are expected to be of special interest is one by J. E. Willis on the crossed-vertical transit which is a new instrument of fundamental astronomy. Frederick Slocum is to give a preliminary report on the probability of clear sky for the 1932 total eclipse...
...communications), RCA Photophone Co. (sound-film recording and receiving equipment), Radio-Victor Corp. (radio sets and talking machines), Radio-Keith Orpheum Corp. (vaudeville circuits and theatres), RKO Productions, Inc. (cinema production), National Broadcasting Co. (broadcasting). Recently it acquired an option on the patents for the Theremin "ether wave" musical instrument, which is played by moving the hands in the air above it. Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting Co. announced that with music publishers Leo Feist, Inc. and Carl Fischer it had formed...
...days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
From the 20th Century point of view the lute is antique, almost obsolete.* Its name is derived from the Arabic al'ud (the wood). It is akin to the biblical instrument called the psaltery...
...over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...