overages, sousaphone, capitation, Tuba Player, a banner year or so

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Globalfest: Suva Devi performing with the Indian group Rhythm of Rajasthan at Webster Hall as part of the annual Globalfest on Sunday.




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Scenes from Globalfest: dancers performing during the set of the Congolese artist Diblo Dibala.


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Lunise Morse and Richard A. Morse of the Haitian group RAM. As soon as world music leaves home, it begins deciding what cultural memories are made for travel. Globalfest is partly a showcase for the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters convention: an audition for promoters seeking something genuine from afar. Nearly everything now billed as world music involves some degree of crossover and packaging, even video backdrops. Yet at this year’s Globalfest roots were showing, and so were dance moves, carnival rhythms and — always a welcome sight — sousaphones. 

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sousaphone
(sū'zə-fōn', -sə-)
n.
A large brass wind instrument, similar in range to the tuba, having a flaring bell and a shape adapted to being carried in marching bands.

[After John Philip SOUSA.]

The sousaphone is a type of tuba that is widely employed in marching bands. Designed so that it fits around the body of the tubist and is supported by the left shoulder, the sousaphone may be readily played while being carried. The instrument is named after American (banna) bandmaster and composer John Philip Sousa, who popularized its use in his band.

Sousaphone section in a marching band (Santa Claus parade)

Sousaphone line in a Combat Support Hospital band

Lightweight Sousaphone made from modern materials 

Sousaphone use in Banda Sinaloense, a genre of Regional Mexican Music

Sousaphones used by Guggenmusik bands during Eis-zwei-Geissebei in Rapperswil, Switzerland

The sousaphone was developed in the 1890s by C.G. Conn at the request of John Philip Sousa, who was unhappy with the hélicons used at that time by the United States Marine Band. The hélicon is an instrument that resembles the sousaphone in principle but has a far narrower bore, and a much smaller bell which points between straight up and to the player's left. Sousa wanted a tuba that would send sound upward and over the band with a full warm tone, much like a concert (upright) tuba, an effect which could not be achieved with the narrower-belled (and thus highly directional) hélicon.

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Another Win for Artificial Intelligence: the Turing Award
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By STEVE LOHR It's been a banner year or so for artificial intelligence, from the recent triumph of IBM's Jeopardy-winning supercomputer to a wave of news coverage of the field, like the “Smarter Than You Think” series in The Times, but also coverage ...


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having a 'banner' year means that it was more than expected, above expectations. It was a very good year--financially,

VIDEO: Playing a Titanic Tuba Carl Fischer Music owns what some believe is the world's largest tuba. Playing it requires a strong set of lungs.

A Tuba Player is the most important person in a marching band, they provide the loud and deep tones that an audience loves to hear, and tubas are a great visual representing power like that of of the Player themselves

Did you see that Tuba Player? He must have the strongest lungs in the world to play that instrument.

Serpentine
前幾天看serpentine 等，想起倫敦海德公園的湖；Henry Moore 在Serpentine
Gallery戶外的展覽。今天碰到樂器serpent，查Thomas Hardy『還鄉』（Return of the
Native），北京：人民出版社）……據說近乎絕跡……

 n. ; 陰人; 【天文】（S-） 座 （Serpens ）.
(Old) Serpent 【聖】（the ～） 魔; 誘惑者.

樂器
tuba 前身
蛇形大號 木製/銅等Modern serpents are often made of PVC pipe by joining
different sizes of pipes together, each one being heat tapered, using
a propane torch especially designed for bending and shaping PVC pipe.

overage

[形]制限年齢［適齢］を越えた.

overage

[名][U][C]1 （商品の）過剰（⇔shortage）；過剰生産［供給］.2 在庫品の過大評価額.

capitation (kap-i-TAY-shuhn)

noun
1. A counting of heads.
2. A uniform tax assessed by the head; a poll tax.
3. A fee extracted from each student.

Etymology
From Late Latin capitation- (poll tax), from caput (head). Ultimately from Indo-European root kaput- (head), also the origin of head, captain, chef, chapter, cadet, cattle, chattel, achieve, biceps, and mischief, (but not of kaput)

Usage
"Later, [the] Supreme Court appointed a committee under Justice Jahagirdar to ensure that the private medical colleges charge no undue capitation fees." — HC Gives Reprieve to Medical Students; Afternoon Despatch & Courier (Mumbai, India); Mar 7, 2006.

[名]頭割り（勘定）, 均一割当額；人頭税(poll tax).