Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opera Company began its season with a performance of Carmen, starring Alice Gentle. In Manhattan a pianist kept his audience waiting for half an hour after his recital was billed to begin. When at last he entered, he began to thump the keys in an unmerciful manner, forcing his tone, letting his left hand get in front of his right and pouring out his music like beer carelessly dumped into a mug too small for it so that a turbulent foam froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries...
...early editions promised much but soon the tone dropped-for us to absolute zero...
...except a certain notorious prayer. The author of that prayer also thanked God he was not as other men are, and recorded with the same smirking self-satisfaction his financial righteousness and his virtuous self-restraint. No rich parvenu can ever have addressed his humblest poor relation in a tone of more offensively oleaginous patronage than this...
...tune, passes through the holes to strike selenium plates, setting up vibrations which are "amplified" as on a radio. When Inventor Grindell-Matthews placed his hand over one of the lights, a note was deadened; when all the lights were covered, all sounds ceased. The instrument has a tone like that of a little pipe-organ...
...Hammond has claimed for his invention that it makes possible greater sonority, more lasting tone, alteration in the quality of the tone after it has been struck (TIME, Aug. 31). No wonder the assembly stared as Pianist Donahue, supported by Conductor Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, sank his fingers into the keyboard. They heard Rachmaninov's dense symphonic thunders rendered to the last chord, and they shook their heads. Definitely, it was a disappointment. There had been moments-in the adagio, in the arpeggiated chords of the cadenza-when the sustaining power of the instrument was evident...