Word: phonographically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phonograph companies have practically stopped issuing hot jazz records. If jazz could be given the needle, Guitarist Condon was the man to do it. An oldtime member of Chicago's Austin High gang, he organized bands for the first great jazz records of the Chicago school in 1927. Ever since he has been a catalyst of jazz, who never takes a chorus himself...
Some 500 factories, arsenals and shipyards are now wired for sound. From a studio or office, phonograph records are played over a system of loudspeakers. Other firms engage bands, encourage employe musical groups. In England, where nearly every factory plays music to its workers, surveys have shown a 6% to 11% increase in production directly traceable to sweet sounds...
...arrived anonymously while Faculty members gave other articles such as candlesticks. A friend of one of the students, William H. Fex, 2Dv., sewed the altar cloth, and the gray-colored material back of the altar. The men are hoping that, some time in the future, they can acquire a phonograph with records, and perhaps some books...
Astatic Microphone Laboratory, Inc. (of Youngstown, Ohio) was puzzled when Du Pont gave it orders, with a high Government priority, for numbers of sensitive phonograph pickups. Astatic Microphone was still more surprised to find out that Du Pont engineers were putting the phonograph needles not on phonograph records but against factory fences, relaying the wires' vibrations to amplifiers. So Asiatic's engineers redesigned their pickups to make them more compact and weatherproof. Du Pont last fortnight announced the result: fences (equipped with five pickups to the mile) which can catch a wren's song or the sighing...
...year ago Victor published a Ballad Singers album. Next week a newcomer among phonograph companies, Bost Records, is putting out another Siegmeister album: Songs of Early America. Some of the songs: The Saint's Delight, A Virgin Unspotted, The Devil and the Farmer's Wife, Soldier, Won't You Marry...