Word: spinet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CinemaScope movie projectors in his 45-seat theater. Others are ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters' President Dave Beck...
...secretary (Joanne Dru). She loves the man, but he would rather tickle the ivories. In San Francisco, though, the pianist has an experience (Dorothy Malone) that lifts his eyes from the scales. He hurries the young lady off to a museum, where he serenades her on Chopin's spinet and Mozart's harpsichord. ("Mozart," he confides, "became a great composer. He was decorated by the Pope.") And then, as he plays Liebestraum ("A dream of love," he sighs in explanation) on Liszt's own instrument, Pianist Warrin proposes. She accepts, but fate comes between them: the pianist...
...stage of the Grand Music Hall of Basel, Switzerland one day last week sat two strange contraptions. One resembled a telephone switchboard with a set of loudspeakers attached. The other looked like a small spinet but was connected to two loudspeakers and a lute-shaped soundbox. The gadgets were known as the "Mixturtrautonium" and the "Ondes Martenot." Both produce more or less musical tones electronically, and they were to be featured soloists in a concert for the delegates to the first International Congress of Electronic Music and Musique Concr...
Fourteen months ago Admiral Pride was given command of the Seventh Fleet. When he transferred his flag to the Helena, his cabin was one that had once been prepared for President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
...chew betel nut at the same time. He was recently heard to play Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer on this odd instrument. At nights aboard the Helena, Pride's staff gathers in the wardroom for informal musical sessions, with the ship's paymaster banging out tunes on the spinet in the key of C (which is the only one he knows) while other musical officers toot away on harmonicas...