Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio crooner's hummmm was last week officially recognized as an undesirable instrument of erotic suggestion. Banned from the national chains was a popular cinemized waltz written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Words...
Cincinnati seems to be the seat of tuba experiments. Tubaman James Austin Houston who plays in radio station WLW has a bellows contraption called an aerophor attached to his instrument (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). He pumps it with his foot to shoot auxiliary air up through a hose into his mouth where, by a special facial technique, he shoots it back into the instrument. Tubaman Houston is puny. His aerophor is purely a lung-saving device. William Bell's invention is not for weak tubamen. It does the work of two tubas-a double bass and a baritone...
...real "hot" jazz will be shown as coming from Negro performers like mad Buddy Bolden-free-lance trumpeters, saxophonists and trombone players who started the hot jazz cult which today has such heroes as Cab Galloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington. Galloway and Armstrong are predominantly showmen. Galloway plays no instrument, sings with his orchestra in a bleating, high-pitched voice, relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good...
...ground that the actual question of war is an emotional, and not a rational problem, the continued interest of college men and women in crystallizing opinion against militarism is of great importance. No class of people is more aware of the obvious absurdity of military force, as an instrument of national policy, than students who are studying the effects of the last war. If they can train their emotional reactions sufficiently well to resist the "martial spirit" of some future date, they will do a tremendous service to mankind. Continuous pledges against war may not always be effectual, but they...
...illegible letters which have survived him: "The Saxophone Lady is inquiring about her piece. Of course I assured her that with the exception of Rameses II, it is the only subject that occupies my thoughts. ... So here I am, searching desperately for novel combinations to show off this aquatic instrument. . . . Considering that this Fantaisie' was ordered, and paid for, and eaten more than a year ago, I realize that I am behindhand with it. ... The saxophone is a reed instrument with whose habits I am not very well acquainted. I wonder whether it indulges in romantic tenderness like...