Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a flood of desk work will not separate "Bogie" Boguslawski from a keyboard which he keeps in an almost constant state of agitation by teaching 250 pupils, performing in numerous concerts and broad casts. Once a protégé of the late Publisher William Rockhill Nelson of the Kansas City Star, Mr. Boguslawski learned what makes a news story from his patron. When straight news about himself is scarce, "Bogie" is likely to come forth with such a project as his proposal to promote world peace through voice culture, since animosity arises when unpleasant tones are heard...
...York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched a lever and presented him, hot from the mold, with a solid line of type...
...Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago played three works competently before the intermission. Then last Sunday's Orchestra Hall audience craned their necks, watched a young man with horn-rimmed spectacles being led to a piano on the stage. The young man felt the keyboard, struck a note lightly, tentatively. Conductor Ebba Sundstrom tap-tapped with her baton. Into Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto swung the orchestra, followed by the young man who, despite his unorthodox way of holding his hands flat, his arms stiff, played fleetly with sure, supple tone...
Colleagues who had played with him for years were amazed at Giese's facility, the way his big hand moved crab-fashion over the keyboard, producing harmonics and arpeggios with seemingly little effort. Most bull fiddlers stand up to their instruments. Waldemar Giese has a specially designed stool with a swivel seat and a foot rest (see cut) which give him support...
Once a winter a piano with a specially constructed keyboard is rolled on to the stage in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, while in the lobby a box-office attendant drones: "Everything sold for this performance. All standing-room gone." When the hall is hushed, stubby Josef Hofmann ambles into view, his head cocked quizzically to one side, an appraising look in his keen brown eyes. Few notice the piano with its keys cut short to suit the short fingers...