Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signatures. The only work which the President took with him was the report of the Tariff Commission on sugar. Nevertheless, temporary executive offices were prepared in a sort of dance-hall-lodge-meeting-room over the village store. It contains four desks, two telephones, four kerosene lamps and one piano. The room directly adjoining it is the room where the President was born, at a time when his father kept the store. C. Bascom Slemp hurried around gathering human interest material. One of his finds was a picture taken of a Sunday school picnic which includes Calvin Coolidge...
Finally, he discovered the modern musical equivalent of each of these syllables. He concluded that the Assyrians, like the Chinese, had a scale consisting of five different notes, giving much the same effect as that which is produced when one plays on only the black keys of a piano. The tune of this particular hymn turned out to be rather "Chinese" in character, monotonous and plaintive. It was played on a harp which had 21 strings and was probably very popular with the old priests and cutthroats of Assyria...
...amphitheatre. The largest pipe in this musical monster will be 64 feet long. This single pipe will contain as much lumber as is used in the construction of a fair-sized bungalow. It will give out the note "CCCC," three octaves deeper than the lowest "C" on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second-the lowest perceptible by the human ear. If blown by the powerful electric bellows, without any accompanying notes, the impact of the tone emitted would knock any unfortunate listener unconscious...
...artist of . international repute, from Ignace Paderewski to "Jerry" Farrar, has appeared on its platform. The concert-entrance is on 43rd Street, the Aeolian business entrance on 42nd Street. Thus the tainted atmosphere of commercialism was never permitted to invade the sanctum of Art. Now and then, free player-piano and player-organ concerts were given of a forenoon when no orchestra was rehearsing, but these, being free, were not too well attended. The sale of the Hall, at a figure estimated at around $6,000,000, is seen as a harbinger of another northward...
Helen Porter Mitchell (Melba) born in 1859, made her first public appearance at six years of age at a school-concert, when she sang Comin' Thro' the Rye to a delighted audience. She received a good musical education, mostly at the piano, married one Captain Charles Armstrong when 23 and sang and played at private musical soirees in Melbourne. But, because of some prejudice against her early marriage to a well-to-do man, the Australian public ranked her "an amateur." So she departed for Paris in 1884, trained her voice−and studied hard−under...