Word: zithers
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Prior to now the finest tone-division ever achieved was on the arpacitera, a zither-like instrument with a one-octave range which produced sixteenth tones. It was played with the Philadelphia Orchestra three years ago by Beatrice Weller. Specially constructed French horns have also achieved sixteenth tones...
...filling station, sells oil in Memphis and sings in a choir. Ray Kremer (Pirates) works in the California oil fields. Dazzy Vance (Robins) used to sell real estate, made money during the Florida boom. Bowlegged Charlie Grimm (Cubs) paints por- traits, plays a $450 banjo, also the zither the xylophone. . . . All of them have something they like to do in the fall and winter-their time for big meals, things to drink, late sleeping, being with the family, making a little money on the side. But now you may walk into a pullman car on one of the overland limiteds...
Many of the pieces in Innocent Bystanding have appeared in Mr. Sullivan's column in the World and in the New Yorker. He takes a news item, a musical instrument (the zither, for example), an actress, an animal or the income tax and starts telling about it. Suddenly the reader becomes aware that Mr. Sullivan has left the ground and is loping around in a most ridiculous ether...
...book form they are not quite so funny. Artist Peter Arno created them with so few strokes of his charcoal and such a rare vein of middle-aged-female innuendo, that their gusto seems stifled when, located in a charity home, with a zither player, a retired fireman, an orphan oaf called Fester, a man with an elephant, and a Park Avenue dowager for companions, they become heroines of a story of which the dizziness does not compensate for the length. The upshot of the story is that Mrs. Flusser inherits $20,000,000 and the old gals pack...
...Carillo claimed he crowded 96 tones into a single octave. At Conductor Stokowski's command, specially trained musicians first produced on the familiar violin, cello and horn, intervals smaller than the semitone. Then new and strange gifts to Orpheus from Mr. Carillo were played: the arpacitera, a mastodonic zither, tuned in 16ths; the octavina, a towering double-bass guitar, capable of eighths; a guitarre adapted to produce quarter-tones...