Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other, reading the rugged poems that have made his name, poems of smoke and steel and corn-husking smarting with truth and vitality. Poems have been first part on his programs but songs have come before the end. He pulls up a chair, takes his guitar, strums a measure or two and then will come the woeful, repetitious story of a moaning Carolina Negro, the whoopees of a rancher. Some will come to him after the recital, and ask him if he has ever heard "the other version of that last one he sang," or tell him he should...
Elsa excused herself, told herself the union was for practical reasons. If she had been willing to go on as a grubbing farm girl, she insisted in her thoughts, she would have married an employe of the Carews, an eerie cowboy with a magic guitar whose dynamic physique had created a great longing in her. Bayliss meant external luxury, and she took him in form only. But the capitulation of sensitive women to such men as the Mad Carews is as inevitable as the failure of crops in Elders Hollow, the Bowers' poor farm land, be the men tenfold...
...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...
...following instruments will be accepted for the Mandolin Club: mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass viol. For the Banjo Club the tenor banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and the piccolo are eligible...
...novelty acts or instruments of unusual variety will be considered and judged by the Specialty Division. Clog dancing, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing, xylophone playing, the Hawaiian guitar, accordian and the saw come under the Specialty Acts...