Word: tuner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...greatest number of students under the plan are sons of teachers, with engineers and farmers coming second and third. Other occupations represented included printers, service station men, truck drivers, a piano tuner, a carpenter, a lumberman, and one "unknown...
Every early-rising radio tuner in Greater New York and environs has certainly heard John B. (for Bradley) Gambling some morning or other. With his Musical Clock, his all-in-fun setting-up exercises, cheerio music, wheezy gags, weather information and news scraps, John B. Gambling has been a WOR fixture for 15 years. Once he was a British seaman on a World War I mine sweeper. He got his job at WOR as a technician in 1925 at $30 a week. Now he says he makes $25,000 a year at his early-bird program, has had a parade...
Died. Sir Charles W. Lindsay, 83, blind Canadian philanthropist, a piano-tuner who built up a $2,000,000 musical instrument business, was knighted in 1935 for his donations and services to the blind; of paralysis; in Montreal...
After Ignace Jan Paderewski, 78, collapsed minutes before his Manhattan concert* last week, Eldon G. Joubert, his piano-tuner and companion for 30 years, was asked if the Maestro would ever give another. Said Joubert sadly: "I wonder. He's worn...
...wider fidelity range than wax recordings, film sound tracks suffer virtually no deterioration, since they are played back by a light ray, not by a needle. Engineer Miller plans a sound-track phonograph containing a changeable supply of recordings that may be selected and played just as a button-tuner radio is operated. Estimated phonograph price range: $150 to $3,000. Estimated cost of recordings: about...