Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Dr. Clarence Blank Wilson goes beyond my insignificant personality to attack my beloved father in his grave, it is impossible for a man of honor to keep silent. . . . [His] statements are false and their tone is malignant...
...three stories in this volume from an ascending climax of quality, so far as this reviewer is concerned, though the publisher's opinion is evidently different. "King Haber" has, perhaps, greater potentialities than either "Schoolmaster Taussig" or "The Patriot", but the quiet tone of the story leaves an impression of dullness rather than the solemn grandeur that is the author's intent. The character of this banker in a small German principality--a man who reaches the position of the Duke's favorite, and himself almost provides the heir to the throne--is a powerful creation, but the presentation never...
Long have instrument makers striven to achieve fine tone-divisions, only to be hampered at each turn by man's clumsiness. The possibilities of the violin, for example, are limited to quarter-tones due to the breadth of man's finger...
...covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...
Prior to now the finest tone-division ever achieved was on the arpacitera, a zither-like instrument with a one-octave range which produced sixteenth tones. It was played with the Philadelphia Orchestra three years ago by Beatrice Weller. Specially constructed French horns have also achieved sixteenth tones...