Word: harpist
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...uses his big harp for, and in his arrangements. "There just aren't arrangements for what I want to do, so I have to make them myself." Bronx-born Maxwell won a harp chair with the NBC Symphony at 17, quit after 18 months. Says he: "A harpist doesn't get to play any more often than the triangle-player. He sits there quietly for 684 bars, then plays two of his own. It's frustrating...
...arrangements he needed. Then he joined the Coast Guard and got a chance to play for a while in Lieut. Rudy Vallee's bluejacket orchestra. Since then, he has been what he wants to be: a soloist. Some nightclub managers shudder at the thought of a swing harpist, but Maxwell is making inroads and good money. Income last year...