Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piano had a standard keyboard−but it sounded like a muted xylophone. There was a zitherlike instrument that resembled an outdoor barbecue cooker. An unrecognizable assemblage of crystal rods, stroked by musicians with moistened fingers, emitted resonant whoops that fluttered through attached whiskers of piano wire. At San Francisco's Conservatory of Music last week, an audience of 150 was captivated by the sounds−and sight−of some of the newest and weirdest musical instruments on earth...
...Haydn, Robert Koff's violin and Madeline Foley's cello were both excellent. A shade less successful was Martin Boykan's effort on the piano, which seemed at times to drown out the rest of the trio. Keeping the top of the instrument closed was a step in the right direction, but it tended to make the tone a bit on the muddy side...
...last in Memorial Church's noonday concert series, which was also the best, provided an opportunity to hear the consummate artistry of Lois Pardue, the Church's associate organist. She has been playing this large instrument for several years now, and she knows intimately all its virtues and shortcomings...
Strong Measure. Republic's proton gyroscope is at present an impractical breadboard model, built mostly of transparent plastic, but even so it works well enough to prove the principle. In a practical instrument, says Milton J. Minneman, head of Republic's gyro project, the coils creating the magnetic field will be attached rigidly to the craft that carries them. As long as the ship or missile follows a perfectly straight course, the protons held in the magnetism will remain electrically quiet. But if the ship turns, their struggle to keep from turning with it will generate an electric...
...Telly Savalas as Stroud's humorous cell neighbor, both of whom break through the bird man's embittered aloofness to show him that the community of man is not all enemy country. The film's overall indictment is of the penal system as a profoundly damning instrument of society. Bird Man of Alcatraz argues forcefully and with eloquence that the destruction of individual dignity, the reduction of a human soul to a numbered automaton, is as great a crime as any for which men are jailed...