Word: twang
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Saturday night at Tom Benton's became a musical institution. His son, T. P. (for Thomas Piacenza) Benton, took up the recorder. Benton put thumb tacks in the hammers of his piano to give it the proper twang. Friends and musicians began to come around to listen, laugh and join in-among them Singers Frank Luther and Carson Robison, Composers Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles...
...days. Solos at Symphony Hall and the Vice-Presidency of the Glee Club were the high-spots, and the nearest he came to performing before the crowned heads of Europe was a concert in the home of Governor-General Viscount Wellington of Canada. Apparently either no one minded his twang, or else it is a recent development...
Steel struck steel with a bitter twang...
...newspaperman. Twice president of the Detroit Guild, smart negotiator of Guild contracts on two of Detroit's three papers, he is assistant city editor of the Detroit Times (though frequently out on assignment as one of the paper's best reporters). A six-footer, with a genial twang acquired through years of telephoning to city editors, his chief interest outside news and the Guild is his 120-acre farm near Detroit. He drilled its well himself, is now building a dock on a small lake where he catches pan fish and hunts ducks. More important, the election meant...
...rare, melodious twang was heard this week on U.S. airwaves. The twangs came from an instrument which legend says was invented by a son of Methuselah-the lute, an instrument resembling an archaic mandolin. Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer. Richard Dyer-Bennet, 28-year-old minstrel, is probably the only U.S. radio entertainer listed in Burke's Peerage...