Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Ignace Jan Paderewski, 78, collapsed minutes before his Manhattan concert* last week, Eldon G. Joubert, his piano-tuner and companion for 30 years, was asked if the Maestro would ever give another. Said Joubert sadly: "I wonder. He's worn...
...picking out Old Black Joe on the piano is a man having a mildly good time. But he would be having a better time if he were extracting great ranges of dynamics and tone color from his instrument. To make amateurs feel like virtuosos has been, in recent years, one great object of U. S. electrical engineers. Six years ago Radio Engineer Benjamin Franklin Miessner patented an electronic piano, in which pickups and a loudspeaker do the work of a sounding board and make amateurs dynamic enough to bring in the neighbors. Today eight companies are licensed to make electronics...
...collaboration with Story & Clark Piano Co. of Grand Haven, Mich., RCA put on the market the Storytone, priced at $695. Story & Clark will distribute the piano, which is basically like other electronics, with the slogan "Voiced by RCA Victor." Not many manufacturers have yet made money on electric pianos. Reason: piano players are conservative; before buying a substitute for a piano they want to be sure they want...
...Union production had more than merely a welcome reception. It had brilliant melodies, clever lyrics, enough humor, and excellent acting by a sincere cast--the whole combining to make palatable a message of steel unionism and proletarian action. On a stage bare except for a few chairs and a piano, Big Business, the corrupt press, and a hypocritical clergy were treated to tuneful rapping...
...Democratic Party, now would like to have it believed he stands in well with Franklin Roosevelt. He is a trustee of the National Home Library Foundation, brags he has an entree to the liberal group surrounding Louis Brandeis. He wears thick-lensed glasses when he reads, plays the piano, has two children and a handsome apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He calls almost anyone he meets by his first name or nickname within five minutes, if they are girls, he calls them "Dear...