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Word: plinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that still left Serge, Igor and Leroy Anderson several long leagues behind the perennial alltime favorite: Ludwig van Beethoven. Music lovers could take some comfort from the fact that last season Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto was played just 40.3 times as often as Anderson's Plink Plank Plunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Three-Minute While | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...kinds of sounds are being recast in the stereo mold, but the stereo fan has learned that he can best demonstrate the pingpong effects with the plink and thump of percussion instruments, and stereo records with "percussion" in the title have a Presley-like pull. Command Records, a stereo pioneer, seldom settles for less than two Ps in titles, such as Persuasive Percussion and Provocative Percussion which between them have sold hundreds of thousands of copies since last September. Companies both big and small are doubling in brass. Among the new releases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sound in the Round | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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