Word: brassing
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...female method of tone production tillers radically from that of the male it seems almost libelous to attribute drooling to their horn players (TIME, March 25 ). Closer observation would show you that it is condensed moisture from the breath rather than saliva which accumulates within the tubing of brass instruments. As for ascribing the difficulty of French horn playing to the necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone owing to the multiplicity of overtones which may accidentally take...
...insanity or congestion in the head but pain in the tongue, sometimes inducing chronic sore throat, is the oboist's occupational hazard. Wind & brass players are subject to emphysema (enlargement of the lungs). Curious readers Ire referred to "Occupational Diseases of Musicians" by Robert Pollak in the February issue of Hygeia...
...from Nurnberg came Germany's No. 1 Jew-baiter Julius Streicher stopping last week in Berlin to lead ar anti-Semitic parade with brass bands down Unter den Linden. His gem: "After this election Danzig will know what to with your - Jews! . . . The Leader, as we all know, promised the Poles not to touch the Corridor for ten years, and he will keep his word as usual, but the hour will still come...
...enough food to gorge all the bride's & bridegroom's friends, has often cost enough to run the couple into debt for life. Chinese bankers, who have battened on such marriages for centuries, gnawed their lips in rage last week as Mayor Wu hired an elegant brass band which blared the "Wedding March" of "Foreign Devil" Mendelssohn...
Highly conscious of its small beginnings, its amazing growth and its venerable traditions is Crane Co. This great plumbing house likes to recall the fact that it was established in Chicago in 1855 as a "Brass & Bell Foundry" with one employe- Richard Teller Crane. It likes to recall that in 1930 it had 20,000 employes, one-fourth of whom had been with the com-pany ten years or more. It likes to use waste space on its printed matter or in display windows for maps showing its 150 branches and factories in the U. S. and Canada...