Water Music

More about George Frideric Handel and his Water Music can be found at Boynick, M. Classical Music Pages, http //w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/handel.html 10 October (Accessed 12 January 2004). 

In a 24-h water soaking test, compreg has an ASE value of 95%. The rate of water pickup is so slow that complete swelling equiHbrium of a 1.27-cm specimen is not achieved in a year at room temperature. Compreg is brown and acquires a high poHsh on buffing. It is made commercially in small quantities and is used for knife handles, gears, and certain musical instmments and decorative objects. 

Over one weekend, Julio s school is badly flooded. Someone broke in and, after putting the plugs in all the washbasins in the upstairs toilets, they turned all the taps on. The overflowing water ruined carpets on both floors and caused large parts of the ground floor ceiling to collapse. Several televisions, some musical instruments and a lot of computer equipment were ruined. The repairs to the school are very expensive. A week later Julio discovers who caused all the damage and the vandals find out that he knows about them. 

The category of small electrical waste appliances comprises electrical appliances such as electric razors, music players, hair-removing appliances, hair dryers, egg boilers, immersion water heaters,... 

You press a button and Beethoven music pours into the room like water, water you have looked into, water you have held. 

I call my ceramic musical enterprise Burnt Earth with reverence for the earth, air, fire and water that are intimately involved in the production of each of my instruments. Clay is one of the oldest materials for making musical instruments know to humans. It s exciting to realise that the clay instruments we create today could last for thousands of years. Let s make some good ones ... 

She woke from a dream where there was no music, just water, water everywhere. A wave loomed out of the sea, silently rushing her. It was Holmes s dream, left behind with the faded textbooks, tapes, T-shirts, broken coffee plunger. Two more weeks to get a set together,... 

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