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Show HI FSICAL INSTRUMENTS. ;A The leader of the most famous jazz orchestra in Amer-'.' Amer-'.' ca gives a list of musical instruments now generally used or orchestral purposes. It is truly astounding, including ..jujozcns of which the ordinary person does not even recognize he names. National instruments, he explains, have been .niversalized. There are so many classifications and so many iu -arieties of each, going by so many different titles, that any iut a musical expert is helpless either to recognize or name "hem. Two things the listener can always be sure of, however. vlt?here is always a saxophone, of the seven or more types ,Vr.vailable. And there is always a set of what musicians call partraps," capable of making the characteristic jazz clangor c"hrown in for "literary" effect. This battery of traps deserves' particular notice because A-H plays so prominent a part in current music. Here are a !V"ew of the pieces mentioned: '101 "Tympani or kettle drums, the side or snare drums, the liitiass drums, the tambourine, triangle, cymbals, tom-toms, Chinese drum, castanets, rattle, sand jig imitator, slap pads, jleigh bells, glockenspiel and celesta, the xylophone and idinarimba, clappers and bones, pistol repeaters, cuckoo calls, pitow and calf bawls, wind, crash and rain machines, the piston y'Wiistle and the ocarina." '2 These are the instruments that make the favorite music mi the present generation. A music-lover might wax sentimental senti-mental about them, especially the cuckoo calls, cow-and-calf jawls and crash machines. |