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The Spinning Wheel is also the title/subject of a classic Irish folk song by John Francis Waller. [51] [52] A traditional Irish folk song, Túirne Mháire, is generally sung in praise of the spinning wheel, [53] but was regarded by Mrs Costelloe, who collected it, [54] as "much corrupted", and may have had a darker narrative. It is widely ...
"Spinning Wheel" was nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 1970 ceremony, winning in the category Best Instrumental Arrangement. The arranger for the song was the band's saxophonist, Fred Lipsius. It was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year; the album won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. After the introduction of the spinning wheel in the 13th century, the output of individual spinners increased dramatically.
A spindle is also part of traditional spinning wheels where it is horizontal, such as the Indian charkha and the great or walking wheel. In industrial yarn production, spindles are used as well; see spinning jenny, spinning mule and ring spinning.
It contained the hit recordings "And When I Die", "You've Made Me So Very Happy", and "Spinning Wheel". [1] All of these peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 . The follow-up album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 , also reached number one in the U.S.
A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn. Spinning wheel may also refer to: "Spinning Wheel" (song), a song by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears; Spinning Wheel, a 1984 Chinese film; Spinning wheel (animation), a type of throbber in computer graphics; Spinning Wheel (Asheville, North Carolina), a historic building
Spinner's weasel (left) and spinning wheel (right) Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face (which resembles a clock) and an internal mechanism that makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured (usually a skein). The ...
Devil's wheel: 1943 Double Shot: Drop tower: a drop tower that drops riders down at high speeds 1972 Enterprise: Ferris wheel a giant Ferris wheel 1992 Evolution: pendulum ride 1893 Ferris wheel: 1946 Fireball: 1989 Flight Trainer: 1959 Flying Coaster: 1930s Flying Scooters: 1948 Fly-O-Plane: 1953 Freak out: Pendulum ride: 1982 Freefall: Drop tower