Word: tom-tom
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...bestseller and a Clara Bow film. He later wrote several lukewarm potboilers and a few textbooks, eventually drifted back to English teaching. Embers from the red hot prose that set the Jazz Age afire: "The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound-pounding a terrible tom-tom, the saxophones moaning and wailing, the violins singing sensuously, shrilly as if in pain, an exquisite, searing pain . . . Close-packed the couples moved slowly about the gymnasium, body pressed tight to body, swaying in place-boom, boom, boom, boom...
...Fears, are visually intriguing; Fred Mueller's Withch Doctor is properly awesome. The half dozen shots fired in the play are startling in their loudness, but very effective, and the lighting, displaying Jones but leaving the jungle nearly black, achieves a difficult effect with skill. Lastly, the off-stage tom-tom pounder, Jack Hyman, should be congratulated for his faithful creation of the most memorable effect in the play...
...took three radio sound men, a control-room engineer and five hours of hard work to create the sound that was heard for less than 30 seconds on the air. The sound consisted of a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, air hose, cow moo, boing! (two types), oscillator, dripping water (two types) and three kinds of wine glasses clicking against each other. Judiciously blended and recorded on tape, the effect was still not quite right. Then the tape was played backward with a little echo added. That did it. The sound depicted the manufacturing of babies...
...Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prosperous Negro shopkeepers climbed up wooden ladders and draped the Congolese flag (a golden star on a blue field) from lampposts and triumphal arches set up along Boulevard Albert I, the spanking concrete highway that bisects the capital city of Leopoldville. In far-off mission churches, encircled by the rain forest that stretches through Belgian territory from the Atlantic to the Mountains of the Moon, choirs of Bantu children rehearsed the Te Deum. African regiments drilled, jazz bands blared in the bush, and on the great...
...Pont was fond of organ music but was also hard of hearing, so he built one of the most formidable organs on earth, incorporating a percussion division, harps, celesta, drums, xylophone, tympani, tambourine, tom-tom. Chinese gong and 11,000 pipes, ranging from pencil size (8,000 vibrations a second) to one 34 feet tall and weighing a long ton (13 vibrations a second). Mrs. du Pont could hear...