Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard offense can repeat anything close to the performance they had last week when they scored three goals against the Ivy's top-rated defense, Saturday's match up with Drexel shouldn't be anything more than a tune-up for the anticipated showdown with Dartmouth...
...final tune-up before the Ivy League tournament next weekend at Dartmouth, the Crimson (17-11, 5-2 Ivy) cruised to a perfect 3-0 record at the Harvard Invitational this weekend, defeating Siena 3-0, Marist 3-1, and SUNY-Stony Brook...
Except for his name and party affiliation, Al Gore has now changed just about everything a struggling candidate can change: clothes, consultants, message, manner. But his campaign theme song--the cheesy tune that blares at every Gore 2000 event--still needs work. He started with Shania Twain's Rock This Country, but it only reminded people that the country isn't rocking for him. Since shelving Shania, Gore has used the soul anthem Love Train--a call to unity that rings hollow with Democrats still divided about the nomination. But there's hope. At the New Hampshire "town hall" forum...
...enigmatic man called Saradjeff arrived with them to oversee their installation and playing. He is vividly described by Mason Hammond in a 1936 document preserved in the Harvard University Library. Saradjeff was supposed to be a genius of ringing--a tortured but prolific composer of carillons with an ear tuned to the exact pitch of bronze. His face had been horribly disfigured during the war. He spoke no English and had a history of epilepsy. Without delay Saradjeff retired to the basement of J and K entries to tune the smaller bells, a cacophonous process involving endless tapping and filing...
...Saradjeff's early departure was something of a tragedy for the bell project. He left only partial plans for the bell's hanging, and he was the only man around with any comprehensive knowledge of their playing. The bells are tuned to an eastern scale, supposedly a mixture of Byzantine and Tartar influences, which, to the Western ear gives their carillons a haunting and unfamiliar sound. No one here is quite sure how to play them or what music they were cast for. Aara admits that it is only through a lengthy apprenticeship that one begins to recognize the bells...