Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night Beck spun such tunes as "Ob la di, Obla da," "All of Me," an old Elvis tune, as well asthe traditional favorites like "Amarylla ByMorning...
From the start, the Harvard career of these bells has been marked by tragedy. President A. Lawrence Lowell hired a Soviet to install and then tune the bells, unaware that they could not be tuned. The poor bell-tuner, thrust into Cambridge without knowing a bit of English, started to file notches into the bell rims, much to Lowell's chagrin. (He promptly had the man fired for defacing them...
Still, no one can do a proper job if the equipment is so intrinsically flawed. Even the Mozart of bell ringers couldn't make this orchestra sound decent--the instruments are permanently out of tune and the concertmaster is forever absent...
...stop ringing the Lowell House bells would not stifle Russian or Eastern cultural influences on campus. It may even increase student appreciation for the music of foreign cultures. An injustice is being done to what Russian bell carillons should sound like by letting this incomplete, out-of-tune set of bells represent this musical genre. Understanding of this art form could be greatly enhanced if students were allowed to hear it in a form uncorrupted by discordant bells...
...this is not the end of a cherished tradition. It is simply the elimination of an unnecessary disservice to these incomplete and out-of-tune bells. President Lowell tried and tried to get his bells right, but never quite succeeded...