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...seven playing strings, 19 "sympathetic" resonating strings, so sensitive that they must be retuned while being played, and two bulbous gourds at either end for sound boxes. Shankar's sitar artistry has influenced such jazz innovators as Pianist Dave Brubeck and Saxophonists John Coltrane and Bud Shank. At the end of his U.S. tour, Shankar will begin a six- week course in Indian music at U.C.L.A.; local jazzmen are standing in line to enroll. The basis of Indian music is a melodic form called a raga, a series of notes on which the musician improvises. There are thousands...
FOLK 'N' FLUTE (Pacific Jazz). Folk music is so popular today that blues singers call themselves folk singers and jazz combos have been known to swing John Henry and We Shall Overcome-violently. Bud Shank and the Folkswingers, featuring Shank's cool flute and Joe Pass's warm guitar, stay close to the spirit of the ballads in their gentle improvisations on songs like This Land Is Your Land and Blowin' in the Wind...
CHARLES L. SHANK, D.D.S...
...ELINOR SHANK...
...first type of cartridge--in which the stylus arm, or shank, presses on a crystal--is called the "ceramic" type. Because they are consistently prone to distortions of the true signal and because they sually entail the necessitty of higher stylus pressures, ceramic cartridges are not popularly used today in custom audio circles, and must of our cartridges employ the electrically less efficient magnetic principle...