Word: piccoloed
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First of all, will you think of all the different noises that come to your ears, from, the boom of the bass-viol to the peep of the piccolo, as if they were all nicely sorted out according to pitch in a broad band or spectrum like the colors of the rainbow. In this imaginary scheme, a pure note such as the sound of a tuning-fork will fall neatly into one line on the band; while complex sounds, like the voice, will shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind...
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...
...throw to his heart's content. Thrown with equal force, the lemons would hit players, the oranges would land in the orchestra pit, the grapefruit on the heads of $5.50 seat-holders. Then Dr. Bainbridge could measure the distance between a grapefruit-splashed spectator and an orange-struck piccolo player, between piccolo player and comedian, and presto, he would know the relative weights of lemons, oranges, grapefruit...
...grave dignity of Statesman Stimson, after he concluded his speech, was upset by a clownish fellow in the hall who played silly flourishes on a piccolo...
...idea it opens startling new music fields. By changing the glass disc the instrument may be made to emulate any known string or wind instrument. Thus, it is possible to foresee a symphony orchestra made up of a hundred Hardy & Brown devices keyed to simulate violins, piccolo-flutes, oboes. French horns...