Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While a ten-year-old boy played on a cornet, they elected a patron saint-Benjamin Franklin-even though the printers and the Saturday Evening Post already have his memory enshrined. Franklin played on the violin and guitar, composed a few conventional songs, and invented a long-obsolete musical instrument, the "armonica."* The musical chambermen found these facts decisive...
...mouth organ but an obsolete instrument consisting of hemispherical glasses, somewhat like champagne or sherbet glasses, mounted on an axis. He played the machine by dampening his fingers and touching the edges of the glasses...
...white-suited, he bent tensely over the tiny head. High-powered lamps poured their white fire down. Two assistants working beside him, watched him make a deep incision in the porcelain curve of tissue and bone behind the baby ear, held their breath as he worked his bright instrument deeper, upward and sideways, toward the brain- then stood frozen with horror as the palpable darkness of tragedy blinded them. Every light in the hospital had suddenly gone...
...possible speed, but people in California, Hawaii, Japan would be far better off if they could have seismographs in their front halls. More often than not the earth's major convulsions take place within a few hours of the first warning quiver. It was just such an instrument that Dr. Thomas A . Jaggar reported having perfected upon his arrival last week in California from his post at the government volcano observatory at Hilo, Hawaii (TIME, May 3). It was an earthquake annunciator, a simplified seismograph for installation in the cellars of private dwellings, with an indicator to be read...
...done some carpentry as a boy, but was not worth 25¢ a day as a carpenter. No, he had never played poker.' He had not taken a drink in 15 years. He danced, but did not enjoy it much. He did not play the accordion or any instrument, except the concertina...