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Carl Weinrich, Director of Music for the Princeton University Chapel and teacher of organ at Columbia University, will be the Horatio Appleton Lamb Visiting Lecturer in Music for 1950-51, Provost Paul H. Buck announced last night...
...small boy in Seattle, Richard C. Simonton listened in awe to the music that came out of the big Welte pipe organ that one of the town's rich men had imported from Germany. The organ was equipped to play music from perforated paper rolls, and Dick Simonton vowed that when he was grown up he would own one too. That time eventually came, but Simonton, by then 30 and a Los Angeles dispenser of Muzak, had to wait until the end of World War II to write to Germany for Welte's wondrous music rolls. The answer...
...Welte factory in Freiburg had been completely bombed out, wrote elderly Edwin Welte, a member of the manufacturing family. There were few organ player rolls left. But he had hidden some rolls of a different kind in the Black Forest when the bombing had begun. The catalogue of recording artists that Welte sent along was enough to make any recording executive jump a groove...
...role of Buffalo Bob, great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba, and such novelty instruments as the tonette and slide whistle. He can also arrange music and imitate a bass fiddle...
...moved on to other parts of the building, leaving the organ playing something out of "Finlaudia," and found ourselves in the midst of booths and displays for an incredible number of organizations, herbaceous or otherwise. Besides the purveyors of gardening supplies, who were selling everything from tractors to Hokinsonesque sun hats, there were representatives from the New England Wild Flower Preservation Society, the Blood Drive, the American Gourd Society, a company selling aluminum window frames, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. And it being St. Patrick's day, we were pleased to see that someone had included a model of an Irish...