Word: ocarinas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harmonica, has been a great comfort to U.S. soldiers in past wars. But priorities in metal have already put a serious crimp in the U.S. harmonica business. This war's comfort is more likely to come from two easily portable and nonmetallic instruments : the "sweet potato," or ocarina, and the tonette...
...last week Captain Lorraine E. Watters, music director of the First Service Command, had set up a class in ocarina and tonette playing at Camp Edwards, Mass. It was the latest of scores of similar groups already organized throughout...
When a Hindu wants attention, he beats on a gong. To drive away evil luck, he blows a bleating blast on a sankha, an instrument shaped like a big ocarina. Last week, in Manhattan's tiny Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, there was both gong-beating and sankha-blowing. The occasion was an evening of Hindu dances, put on by two Hindus, Bhupesh Guha and Sushila, who live, teach and foster their dance troupe in the backwaters of Manhattan...
Honorable mentions have been awarded to three Freshmen. Frederick Goeiz's "The Musician" shows a student trying to play an ocarina while reading from a badly crumpled piece of music. "Sea Breeze," by Walter Rogers, is a picture taken by the seashere with the beach grasses giving way before the wind. Kirkham Cornwell's "Mike" is a sopia picture of a cooker spaniel...