Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little technical errors abounded that night. Aside from the wretched hornist, there was the first clarinetist who appeared to be having trouble getting his instrument to speak in the slow movement of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1, somewhat disrupting the serene beauty of the movement. There were strings who had intonation difficulties occasionally throughout, and rhythm troubles in both Beethoven works. At one point in the aria, the dramatic effect of what was supposed to be a Grand Pause was lost in the scraping of some disoriented violist or 'cellist...
Palar denied that the Federation of Malaysia is a "nation-state." "The United Nations survey team that ascertained the supposed wishes of the people in 1963 was only an instrument of British rule," he said. Sarawak and Sabah, he added, should be given the opportunity to hold a plebiscite by secret ballot...
...have become so wickedly difficult to play that to get by today the pianist must be something of a contortionist-gyrating, flailing, crossing hands, crouching spread-eagle fashion to play both ends of the keyboard simultaneously. To rescue both piano and pianist from extinction, Monique has designed a new instrument-a kind of piano on the half shell...
...Fighting Cocks, Risner was transferred to Danang from Okinawa, where his wife Kathleen, an ex-Army nurse, and their five sons still live. Since then, he has led 18 missions against North Viet Nam-including three last week. His $2,500,000 Thunderchief fighter-bomber is a remarkable instrument of warfare. It can carry twelve 750-lb. bombs or eight pods of 19 rockets each, and has a six-barrel, 20-mm. cannon that can fire 4,000 rounds per minute. Loaded, it weighs 48,400 Ibs., and its top speed exceeds 1,660 m.p.h. Its cockpit is a bewildering...
Elkhart, Ind., is quite a town. It has 40,000 inhabitants - and 40 millionaires. It is the site of an early Indian battlefield, the musical-instrument capital of the U.S., the center of more mobile-home makers (50) than any other spot on earth. Elkhart also has a special relationship with - and dependence on - the upset stomachs, nervous headaches and run-down feelings of the nation. It is the home of Miles Laboratories, maker of two of the world's most popular household remedies, Alka-Seltzer and One-A-Day Brand vitamin capsules. The histories of Elkhart and Miles...