Word: vox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service, as I do at our German Communion, he chases me on the organ, keeping about one note behind me. Should intoning be accompanied? He wants to play fancy chords while I read the Scripture Lessons, and I find it hard...
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...
Kindly advise explicitly the requirements for the publishing of letters from subscribers in your "vox populi." This information is requested because having twice attempted to have one published, I have each time failed...
...Hindenburg, then revered Old Paul had himself ceased to be sacrosanct. Soon, for the first time in a German electoral campaign, the President was openly and savagely attacked. Brown-Shirt bands of Hitler Nazis (National Socialists) rushed about Berlin, sticking up everywhere posters which read: HERR PRESIDENT VOX HINDENBURG...
...villa at Capri, exercises some feudal privileges thrown in with his lease, such as flying his own flag. Lately he acquired a wilder, remoter island off the coast of Scotland. Jethou is now for rent. Besides his playwriting and book-writing activities Author Mackenzie edits The Gramophone and Vox, a weekly dedicated to candid criticism of London radio programs...