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Sound tracks such as now border motion picture films, are imposed on a revolving glass disc. A series of shutters, connected with a keyboard, covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...
...have condemned the somewhat unadulterated tintinabulation manufactured in the belfry of their Baker Library as monotonous and not delightful, despite what Poe may have written on the subject. Hence an administration evincing praise-worthy reverence for the primadonna temperament of its student body has obligingly purchased an electric keyboard operated by musical rolls with a view to civilizing Baker's obstreperous bells into respectful and conventional cadences. Sensitive Hanover ears need no longer suffer the excruciating agony; instead, well modulated hymns accompany the embryonic Emmets on their trek to classes. Dartmouth is to be commended for these theological inclinations...
...quarter-tone piano-the piano of tomorrow, according to Pianist Earth-which amazed. Pianist Earth, young Leipsic-born U. S. citizen, long felt himself limited by the conventional twelve-tone scale (in the keyboard the seven white full tones and the five black half tones). With the help of one George L. Weitz and the Baldwin Piano Co. he in vented a quarter-tone instrument which has a second keyboard, is double the thick ness of the standard piano, has to be played from an extra high stool. He wrote music for it (North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral...
Rank still counts: this particular camp, in which only officers are allowed, is ruled by the ranking officer with the severe discipline, the stiff etiquette, of the regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again...
...lute had its heyday from the 14th to the 17th Century. It has a pear-shaped body built of pine or cedar staves pieced together like the crescent divisions of a melon. Its neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which...