Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...callus at the base of the left little finger indicates a stone cutter, who braces his chisel with his little finger. Other characteristic calluses: the house painter's on the front of both shins where he leans on his ladder ; the trumpet or tuba player's near the tip of the right little finger, where the finger presses against a small hook to steady the instrument; the writer's (or student's or bookkeeper's) on the side of the right middle finger; the French horn player's in the corresponding spot...
...personnel had been changed. But that 10% were mostly first-desk men, whose musical and psychological effect on an orchestra is crucial. The Philharmonic had a new concertmaster, a new solo viola, a new first oboe and bassoon, two new first horns, a new trombone, a new tuba. The orchestra played with a precision and energy that led many to hope that it might soon resume its historic place as a real rival of the Boston and Philadelphia orchestras...
Manager Shoot-the-sherbet-to-me-Herbert Schwetman played a hot cornet, while Cokey Wing, Colonel Fox, and Send-me-Sandford backed him up with violins. Lt. Mawhinney on the tuba and Ensigns Jackson and Hofheimer showed the faculty that there's more to harmony than Fourier Analysis. Miss Frances Jennings played the electronic musical instrument, the Theremin...
...Gilhens will modulate a tuba, Dr. LeCorbeilor will filter a bass viol Dr. Tatum will amplify a saxophone, and Mr. Schwetman will blast away on a hot cornet. The faculty is combing the electrons out of its hair and students are invited to witness and heckle at the performance...
...Welcome, recorded by Rudy Vallee (Victor) and Jacques Renard (Brunswick). Forty thousand discs were sold and then the tune dropped from U.S. memory. Composer Hupfeld, who in his time had turned out such Tin Pan Alley hits as Sing Something Simple and When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba, came to the conclusion that he was through. For ten years he seemed to be right...