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...third of the way around the world from Florence.Bearzi 's two-ton doules opened last week on their first services in the newly consecrated cathe dral. In some ways, the doors are closer 3 mint condition than the originals in Florence. After centuries, much of Ghiberti's detail was too weathered and worn to emerge clearly. So, after gilding the bronze, Bearzi's foundry chased the Renaissance precision touch back on. One craftsman spent six weeks detailing a postcard-size section, bringing out each and every feather on a bird no bigger than one-sixth...
...George L. Weitz and the Baldwin Piano Co. he in vented a quarter-tone instrument which has a second keyboard, is double the thick ness of the standard piano, has to be played from an extra high stool. He wrote music for it (North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral, Shadows of a Spanish Dancer) , devising a system of notation in which raised quarter tones were signified by a sharp-like figure with one vertical crossbar in stead of two, raised three quarter tones with three vertical crossbars; lowered quarter tones by flat-like figures with re versed humps, lowered...
...make the gas cells tight, gold beater's skin must be used, made of the blind gut of oxen; and a herd of 50,000 is needed to supply the material for one airship; a dirig- ible hangar must be a monstrous affair, big enough to house a cathe- dral...
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