Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during a courtroom lull in the jury selection process, John Ehrlichman, baggy-eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older-looking John Mitchell, 61, had sat aloof. Once the nation's chief law enforcer as Attorney General, he now faced criminal charges for the second time...
Recently, Carnegie officials had to face an agonizing acoustical problem: the hall needed a new pipe organ. The old instrument, installed in 1929 but never totally satisfactory, had been removed in the mid-'60s. But to install a new console and set of pipes would have meant tearing out the stage walls and changing their shape. To Carnegie's executive director, Julius Bloom, that would have been as risky as prying apart a Stradivarius violin. What...
...antics and often histrionic interpretations of Bach, Franck, Dupre and Vierne -demonstrated that Carnegie has a superb instrument capable of Baroque festivity, Romantic mystery and 20th century guts and power. Its complex, contrapuntal layers of sound are clearer, more sharply defined than would have been possible with a conventional pipe organ. Pipe organs rarely sound as well in a concert hall as they do in the cavernous reaches of the churches and cathedrals for which they were originally intended...
...average listener. Different orchestras often have different pitches. The standard middle A, to which most orchestras tune, is 440 cycles per second. But the Vienna Philharmonic, for example, tunes to 445 for a brighter sound, while the New York Philharmonic prefers 441. Since the pitch of an ordinary organ-pipe or electronic-is immensely difficult to change, touring orchestras never bring along "organ works. But Carnegie's new Rodgers can be tuned from 435 to 445, or anywhere in between, with the turn of a single knob. Says Rodgers Co.'s tonal director, Allan Van Zoeren: "In this...
...carpenters and pipe insulators moved into the final stages of construction on Canaday Hall this week, its occupants seem satisfied with their accommodations...