Word: spinet
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...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...
...Models. Their first big move was to introduce the small, low-priced ($500 and up) spinet, which has almost entirely replaced the oldfashioned, lumbering upright and the high-priced grand piano. (Manhattan's famed Steinway & Sons, however, still concentrates half its output on grand pianos, from $2,700 up, for the carriage and professional trade.) The second big step was to offer a wide selection of pianos. Chicago's mass-production piano makers, such as Wurlitzer, Kimball, and Story & Clark, now offer from 30 to 50 different styles and finishes apiece. Story & Clark, which last year brought...