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[5] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, with the letters F-U-N already being filled in. He called it a "Word-Cross Puzzle." [6]
For example, the tessitura of a soprano voice is roughly C 4 –C 6, while the tessitura of a soprano recorder is C 5 –C 7. Modern variations include standard British terminology, due to Arnold Dolmetsch, which refers to the recorder in C 5 (soprano) as the descant and the recorder in F 4 (alto) as the treble. As conventions and instruments ...
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
Recorder, tenor (AM 1998.60.41-1) The tenor recorder is a member of the recorder family. It has the same form as a soprano (or descant) recorder and an alto (or treble) recorder, but it produces a lower sound than either; a still lower sound is produced by the bass recorder and great bass recorder.
1913: The crossword puzzle invented by Liverpool-born Arthur Wynne (1871–1945). 1922: Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, funded by Lord Carnarvon. 1933: Bayko – a plastic building model construction toy, and one of the earliest plastic toys to be marketed [249] – invented by Charles Plimpton ...
Developer of first videotape recorder Charles Paulson Ginsburg (July 27, 1920 – April 9, 1992) was an American engineer and the leader of a research team at Ampex which developed one of the first practical videotape recorders.
Compositions for recorder (1 C, 4 P) M. ... Pages in category "Recorders (musical instruments)" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
A bass recorder is a wind instrument in F 3 that belongs to the family of recorders. The bass recorder plays an octave lower than the alto or treble recorder. In the recorder family it stands in between the tenor recorder and C great-bass (or quart-bass) recorder. Due to the length of the instrument, the lowest tone, F, requires a key.