Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed fiddles made in Cremona more than 200 years ago are considered the best in the world. Supposedly unrecapturable is the secret of the Cremona makers-whether it was construction, shape, wood or varnish. Professor Frederick Albert Saunders, Harvard physicist, has long been making a scientific analysis of the tone quality and playing performance of Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins in comparison with the best modern instruments. Last week, in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, he published his findings...
Interesting sidelight on the battle between the so-called "cold, classical" and the "warm" jazz tone was given this reviewer the other day by one of the Hruby brothers, of the Cleveland Orchestra. These men have been a tradition for years with the Orchestra, taking various trumpet positions within it. Last year I printed remarks of Fritz Reiner to the effect that he wanted to get jazz men for his trumpet section because he felt that the clear and perfect tone of the average classical man was too cold for what he wanted, and that the slight vibrato that...
...album is recorded beautifully with Stokowski extracting the lush but powerful tone that he always manages to get out of a string section. Listen especially to the "Sirens," the third part of the work, which is very seldom played or recorded. It has some chorus work that will relay set your ears on end. Ellington's weirdest jungle stuff has nothing on this...
Just received the new Victor needle, packed in a Plasticene case that makes it look very impressive, modernistic, and all that. Needle is supposed to play one thousand (about) sides without causing any damage to the record. I have tried it for tone, and it sounds excellent. Will try to run off a couple of hundred trys on one surface in the next few weeks and see how it stands...
Uncle Dave Macon, age 70, has gold uppers, alfalfa on his chin, sometimes sports pink gates-ajar collars. He has a ready rube wit. an endless repertory of high jinks, and plays three five-stringed banjos at once. Uncle Dave sets the tone & tune of Grand Ol' Opry, a radio program many plain folk in the South vastly prefer to Charlie McCarthy or Jack Benny...