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- noun Plural form of
calliope .
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Examples
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These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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They say appreciation of this instrument is an acquired taste, but I can feel it and I know it is the same feeling that calliopes evoked in me long before I had even heard of uillean pipes.
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End of the Final Act. [… cut and grotesque hand-operated atmosphere harmonium fairground calliopes reversed steam burlesque kaleidoscopic carousel waltzing spliced organs …] … Calliope screams.
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I have always been fascinated by the sound of calliopes, even as a kid.
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The black people were not allowed on boats, one of whose steam calliopes played “Bye, Bye Blackbird” as it pulled away.
oroboros commented on the word calliopes
An alternade of clips & aloe.
May 22, 2008