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...type of jammer, called "Tuba," shot mighty blasts of radio interference from the bluffs of southern England. When British night bombers streamed home from raids, Tuba's beam was a sheltering arm reaching out from home. Within its protection, bombers were safe from Nazi fighters. Nazi radar scopes showed nothing but Tuba's enormous blur...
...radar's own frequency, thereby obscuring the detectable echo on the radar viewing scope. Allied bombers and ships were armed with these electronic jammers, labeled as "Carpet", for use in foiling detection. For defensive purposes, particularly against enemy air-borne radar, very powerful long-distance, ground-based jammers, called "Tuba", were used...
Russia's music is systematically organized-from the mightiest flames of Russian creative inspiration down to the lowliest tuba spit valve. A Soviet bureau called Glavnoe Musicalno Pravelenya (Glavmus for short) spends over 6,000,000 rubles a year ($1,200,000) keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces...
...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...