Word: marimbas
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Plaint. Near Philadelphia, a neighbor of Mrs. Bobbie Ernst sued to subdue her marimba playing, charged she had played it "for more than five years . . . almost daily, approximately six hours a day and until late hours of the night . . . plays Jingle Bells whenever she observes the plaintiff, and Anchors Aweigh when a certain naval officer is in sight...
...which was climaxed by the 35th annual banquet of the National Association of Music Merchants. To soothe string and wind instrument makers who have been nettled in past years by the fact that piano players have dominated the banquet entertainment, NAMM this year packed the bill with cornetists, harpists, marimba and accordion players...
...same time final details for Class Day were made known. Besides the Orchestras of Ruby Newman, which will play for dancing at Eliot and Lowell Houses in the evening, two Philippine Marimba bands will play supper music in the courtyards of Leverett and Winthrop Houses. In case of rain they will play in the Common Rooms of the Houses instead of the courtyards, where it is planned to set up tables, which may be reserved in advance. Ruby Newman's Orchestras will play indoors for the dancing, but their music will be relayed to the courtyards. The tables will...
...music. A swart Mexican accompanied him, explained to Aztecs and Tarascans that it was their own native music the stranger wanted to hear, not the imported hodge-podge played in Mexican cities. The stranger was interested in the rude, primitive sounds made by the chirimia (clay pipe), the marimba made of gourds, the teponaztle, which is the Mexican Indians' drum, the noisy basis for all their music. Indians took to calling the white man Chokopul which means "one of wandering wits...
...City Sisters carry on an efficient charity service in Los Angeles. The Temple's musical department includes: three bands, three choirs, two orchestras, three organists, three pianists, six quartets, several glee clubs, sundry soloists. When the musical contingent has needed supplementing she has hired the Andrews Bell Ringers, a marimba band, jubilee singers, an 80-piece xylophone band...