Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAUL BUTTERFIELD, at 24, is a virtuoso on the harmonica, the new "in" instrument that folk aficionados, picking up an old colloquialism, call a "harp." Butterfield's harp is electrically amplified, and he gets extraordinary saxophone-like effects with it. On his first album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra), he not only blows a wild-sweet harp but also shows that he is one of the best young bluesmen around by singing the likes of Shake Your Money-Maker and Thank You Mr. Poobah, vigorously backed by guitars, drums, organ and bass...
Critical to this and all future missions was the supersophisticated 3-ft.-high IBM instrument unit, packed with 3,900 lbs. of computers, monitors and guidance equipment so carefully contrived that the entire system was triply redundant. If one set of circuits disagreed with the other two, the system would take an instantaneous vote, with the majority ruling. In a series of programmed commands halfway through the 40-minute flight, the unit ordered itself and the second-stage engine to jettison...
Experts are likely to say that the company suffers from the aftereffects of bad decisions at the top and that many of its divisions can barely make ends meet. They have been saying this for years about the Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. - and they may be right. Yet last year Fairchild's shares rose by a greater percentage than any others on the New York Stock Ex change, spurting from...
...IRAN Male Volunteers will work with Iran's Literacy Corps, which is the country's most effective instrument in rural community development. Females will serve as teachers in provincial schools for rural and tribal girls. Specialists will train Literacy Corps guides or supervisors in Karaj...
Rings & Springs. Early 19th century piano teachers were altogether baffled by the newfangled instrument. All sorts of torturous devices were invented for the purpose of getting the pianist's hands to the keyboard properly. Students' arms were clamped down with iron rails, their fingers wrapped with wires, rings and springs. Beethoven, flailing the keys like a startled bird, helped do away with such practices. He also did away with quite a few pianos, which in his day were rather fragile, spindle-legged affairs with 61 keys. When he performed, an assistant stood by to take out the broken strings...