Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then along came the guitar synthesizer. "This guitar does not play a high E, it plays a high anything," claims its Inventor, Walter Sear, a Manhattan tuba manufacturer who worked with Moog for 18 years on the original synthesizer. His instrument looks like a guitar. It plays like one too. There ends the resemblance. Mating a solid-body Plexiglas Armstrong guitar with a Moog by means of an electric umbilical cord, Sear has created an instrument of virtually incalculable sound potential...
...like "Peter and the Wolf" there isn't much children's music which still appeals to adult concertgoers, no matter what state their heads are in by midnight. The question may even be academic, since the only piece left of this genre which comes to mind is "Tubby the Tuba"--not that it would be difficult to get a narrator, but a good brass player is demonstrably hard to find...
...addition to the drum, the concert will feature the world's second-largest tuba, standing seven and one-half feet tall and weighing 200 pounds...
...Tuba City...
Susan Williams, a freshman from Tuba City, Ariz., propelled the team to its commanding lead with three successive outside shots in the first quarter. Her straight-shooting earned her high score honors accounting for 17 of Radcliffe's 66 points...