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Description
7 images. Long Beach Municipal Band, 15 November 1951. Otto Bartosh Louis Iannucci Band playing in the auditorium. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Emery. Date: 1951-11-15. Reporter: Phister to rewrite. Assignment: Long Beach Municipal band. 44, 83: Otto Bartosh testing tones of his sousaphone on electronic stroboscopic tone analyser. This is the new, streamlined way to test for accurate pitch. 45: Louis Iannucci shows how it was done the old way --- testing flute pitch with B-flat tuning bar, by ear. 82, 60, 61: Several members of band listening to play-back of their own concert, to study improving their part. Left to right (clockwise starting at left foreground): Otto Bartosh, sousaphone Garrett DeKay, euphonium Louis Iannucci, flute Eugene La Barre, band leader Harold Stephens, saxophone Victor Wessell, trombone Paul Hennel, cornet. 22, 23: Long shots, band playing in Municipal Auditorium".
Type
image
Format
7 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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