Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Black had nothing to say about the story, he was almost the only important political personage in the U. S. who did not. Major pronouncement and the one that set the tune for most of the rest came naturally from the White House...
...organ is to a piano, so is a carillon to an ordinary set of bells. Numbering at least 24 (covering two octaves), the bells of a carillon are tuned with the sharps & flats of the chromatic scale, are struck by hammers like piano keys. A chime or peal of church bells, from four to twelve in number, is tuned in the simple diatonic scale and the bells swing freely, emitting their not-always-melodious tones when struck by their clappers. In carillons, the biggest and the smallest bells are the trickiest to cast and tune. Ranked according to the size...
Meantime both sides settled down to a finish fight. Paramount and Max Fleischer continued to ignore the strikers as best they could; the strikers continued to picket Max Fleischer's studio, singing their own words to a well-known tune...
...Cotton Club, the song was released when the dance became popular sold 12,500 copies. Last month Songwriters Buddy Bernier & Bob Emmerich also did a Big Apple song, which sold 12,000 copies in the first ten days after Crawford Music Corp. published it. The Bernier-Emmerich tune reached the radio first and as recorded by Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra was No. 1 last week on Victor s best-selling list. The David-Redmond song played by Hod Williams' Orchestra, was 'fourth on the Bluebird record list. Neither publisher protested the other...
...clearly in sight. No amount of misunderstandings can do more than postpone the inevitable scene in which Rathbone, looking slightly ashamed of himself, comes into Irene's dressing room after the triumphant first night of his and her show, while Bobby Breen carols a sugary Oscar Straus tune (Make A Wish), at only three-quarters of his usual volume, outside the door...