Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course 'Young Woodley' belongs to New York where innovation along any line is accepted with a more sympathetic feeling. There is undoubtedly a dissimilarity of tone in the English school which will be incomprehensible to many, but 'Boy', at least, remains universal...
...shall all find a definite rise in the general tone of moving pictures...
...struck them. It is operated by a fourth pedal, the "Hammond Pedal", which opens and closes an arrangement of parallel revolving slats on the roof of the soundproof case much as the old-fashioned window-shutter was manipulated by its spindle. Since the case is soundproof, the tone can be built up within the pianoforte, its volume depending on the angle of the shutter) and allowed to escape at the will of the player. Again, the reflector can return to the strings a large part of the energy imparted by the player's fingers. Inventor Hammond held...
...have just returned from a week-end visit . . . where I heard a piano demonstrated whose tones grow or die as the performer chooses. I heard the volume in creased after the tone had been struck ... all this without in any degree altering the characteristics or the piano tone...
...favor of it. I conducted a mixed orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh, where 40% of the members were women, and it answered only fairly well. Women players, I admit, are more earnest and serious than men, but they are not so strong and their tone is not so good...