Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substituted numbers for notes, written music in quarter, eighth and 16th tones, and perfected instruments to play them-an "arpacitera" or harp zither, having 97 tones within the octave in subdivisions of 16ths; a French horn, made in Manhattan, that plays 16ths; an "octavina" that plays eighths; a guitar that plays quarters; and an ordinary cello and violin on which were played quarters and eighths. Last week the League of Composers gave a concert in Manhattan, presented among other things, Composer Carrillo's "Sonata Quasi Fantasia," with Composer Carillo as conductor. Critics, interested, found little beauty in the Sonata...
...instruments which are eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the ten or banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Clubs the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol...
...specialty Division, novelty acts and instruments of unusual variety will be considered. Such acts would include clog dancing, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing. Xylophone, accordion, Hawaian guitar, saw, and the like...
...third saving grace is Mr. Nick Lucas, the so-called crooning troubadour, who appears much too briefly with his guitar and all but stops the show. The music otherwise is tuneful, if not epochal. The song "A Girl in Your Arms is Worth Two in Your Dreams" is good musically, although its philosophy is open to serious question. Mr. Buzzell offers a pleasing rapid-fire patter song called "Rue de la Paix", the words of which we planned to remember to tell our roommates, but which, unfortunately, we have already forgotten...
...read in his visage the despair of one who has striven and failed, and perceive by his labored breathing and frequent potations of ice-water that the end is not far off. Then it is that he truly comes into his own. His racquet twangs like an embowered guitar; his serve crashes over with the sonorous finality of the couplet concluding a soliloquy in an Elizabethan play. Next day he reads...