Word: viol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stad, Dutch-born Philadelphian who began as a violinist, and his American Society of the Ancient Instruments. This is also a family affair, composed of Mrs. Stad, a son, a brother-in-law and a close friend named Jo Brodo who plays the quinton (five-stringed treble viol...
...Lotta Van Buren. She delivered explanatory remarks. She plucked twangy notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black wind instrument called a recorder. Lotta Van Buren had so performed twice a week since July, would continue through September. She organized the Deep River Festival of Music, furnished the old instruments, trained her young performers to old music, much of which...
...bands, including 32 pieces, will stage a "Battle of Music" playing from alternate ends of the hall. Pete Herman, the famous "Dog House Slapper," who has played with Mal Hallett and Casa Loma, will be on hand to carry on with his baby bass-viol; Lew Conrad will be crooning the latest hits from the Scandals, the Follies, and all the bigtown shows; Marshard's great aerialminded planist will be doing tailspins all over the key boards...
First of all, will you think of all the different noises that come to your ears, from, the boom of the bass-viol to the peep of the piccolo, as if they were all nicely sorted out according to pitch in a broad band or spectrum like the colors of the rainbow. In this imaginary scheme, a pure note such as the sound of a tuning-fork will fall neatly into one line on the band; while complex sounds, like the voice, will shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind...
George Lytton is famed in Chicago for having founded the 44-piece Business Men's Symphony Orchestra which gives about six concerts a year. He plays the bass viol and owns 28, keeping two handy in his office. But boxing, not music, is his real hobby. Now a sparse man of 58, his muscles are as tough as they were when 40 years ago he started to work for his father and installed a gymnasium next to 'his office. For some years he was considered amateur heavyweight champion and boxed with such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons...