Word: piccoloed
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...accounts, the engineers of Western Electric and the Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction. By means of their new recording and amplifying gadgets the phonographic disc could, for the first time, catch a close approximation of actual sound, from the topmost squeaks of the piccolo to the profoundest groans of the bass tuba. Morose manufacturers adopted the new gadgets in the middle 20s. Electrical recording failed to set the industry on the road to recovery. But it did lay a firmer foundation for the Industry's future growth. It remade a mechanical stunt into...
...symphony orchestra, and they must be as carefully fitted as the parts of a machine. A symphony orchestra in good running order has from 28 to 34 violinists, from twelve to 14 viola players, from ten to twelve cellists, from eight to twelve contrabassists., It must have one piccolo player, two flutists, two oboists, an English-horn player, two clarinetists, a bass clarinetist, two bassoonists, a contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable to the proper functioning of the mechanism. A symphony...
Just as baseball managers try to outbid one another for fine pitchers and hitters, so orchestral managers try to outbid one another for champion piccolo players and contrabassoonists. The violin and the cello are commonly placed among the noblest of musical instruments, but good violinists and cellists bring only a fair figure (average salary: about $80 a week). Most strenuous bidding frequently takes place over first-class oboists and horn players. Fiddlers are the symphonic world's plentiful proletariat. But fine horn players are rarer than fine conductors, and often make a bigger difference to the sound...
...time to the Leftists. Rightist Spain, which proclaimed its Government at Burgos on the sixth day of the war and is recognized as a nation by Germany and Italy, had never lost territory it had once conquered until the recent rout of Italians in the Guadalajara sector in "un piccolo Caporetto" (TIME, April 5). By last week the Rightists had lost strips and snippets of territory here & there along most of their fronts as the Leftists proved able for the first time to get out in the open and launch sustained attacks. They pressed their offensive northeast of Madrid...
...name of the Alpine village where in 1917 the Italian army broke and ran in the most ignominious rout of the War. Italians heard that word many times last week as fact after fact emerged to show that the defeat of the Italian legions was overwhelming, catastrophic, perhaps un piccolo Caporetto ("a little Caporetto"). Air fighters on both sides are now so good that daylight bombing of important centres is considered too risky. Madrid has not been daylight-bombed for two months. In Salamanca even veteran Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand had to write, and the Rightist censors felt they...