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  The Instruments of Washington Phillips
Phillips would have had to re-string and re-tune dramatically to achieve the tuning used on his recordings.
This was 85-year-old Earl Phillips, a second cousin (with a PHD in Economics), who definitely recalled a homemade instrument, and gave me some pretty descriptive clues in a phone conversation on April 16, 2003.
When Phillips "wanted to sing loud, he would raise his head and throw back his shoulders.” Therefore, “he’d only look at the (zither) at the start, then not need to look." The instrument was definitely "made by him (Washington Phillips)," and a neighbor had said, it "looked like part of a piano."
www.minermusic.com /dolceola/phillips_instruments.htm   (2104 words)

  
 EXHUMING THE LEGEND OF WASHINGTON PHILLIPS
For the most part, however, Phillips is virtually unknown except to a cult of rabid musicologists, who revel in the mystique of the man who emerged out of nowhere as a fully-formed artist and just as quickly disappeared.
The "real" Washington Phillips returned to the farming life in the fl settlement of Simsboro, content to play for neighbors and churchgoers until 1954, when, at age 74, he died of head injuries suffered from a fall down the stairs at the welfare office in nearby Teague.
That the Washington Phillips who was gospel's great disappearing act would take his eternal nap in an unmarked grave seems about par for this course in music history.
home.earthlink.net /~minermusic/corcoran.htm   (2836 words)

  
 [Uuma-news] The Reverend Charles William Phillips [1917-2002]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Phillips was born January 29, 1917 in Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Phillips moved to Washington D.C. where he joined the staff of Senator Hubert Humphrey and continued to serve on Humphrey's staff after the Senator became Vice President.
Phillips also worked at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and was a senior program analyst for Labor's Office of Manpower Development Administration.
lists.uua.org /pipermail/uuma-news/2002-April/000239.html   (289 words)

  
 CMT.com : Washington Phillips : Biography
Recent studies suggest that Phillips may have actually played a modified fretless zither on his recordings rather than a true dolceola, and in fact, he may have been playing two such instruments at the same time, one with the left hand and one with his right.
It was long thought that Phillips was committed to a state mental institution in Austin, Texas less than a year after his last 78 was recorded, and that he spent the final years of his life confined there until his death in 1939 of tuberculosis at the age of 47.
Whichever version is accurate, Phillips never recorded again and his 16 surviving recordings from the late '20s remain one of the most distinctive in all of early blues and gospel.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/phillips_washington/bio.jhtml   (355 words)

  
 Physicist Melba Phillips, 97, Dies (washingtonpost.com)
University of Chicago physicist Melba Phillips, who lost two higher education jobs during the McCarthy era for refusing to testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, died of coronary artery disease Nov. 8 in a nursing home in Petersburg, Ind. She was 97.
Phillips, who went on to become one of the leading physics educators of her time, was teaching at Brooklyn College in 1952, with a part-time position at the Columbia University Radiation Laboratory.
Phillips was fired and was unemployed for several years.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A55728-2004Nov16.html   (736 words)

  
 Washington Phillips
If you are among the growing number of people who have discovered the recordings of Washington Phillips and would like to know more about his mysterious instrument, you are in the right place.
For decades, it was believed that Phillips accompanied himself on a dolceola when he recorded, and until recently there was good reason for that belief.
I have spent a good deal of time listening very carefully to the recordings of Washington Phillips and in turn experimenting with variously configuring actual Phonoharp instruments of the models Phillips is holding in the photo.
www.fretlesszithers.com /wp.html   (2424 words)

  
 Conservatives for Kerry? Here's Your Man. (washingtonpost.com)
Phillips sits on his back porch and looks at you from under hooded eyes, with only the vaguest hint of a chipmunk smile.
The Bushes settled in a west Texas city that, far from being the cowboy wildcatter's paradise of political myth, was a leafy enclave thick with Ivy League scions, street names such as Princeton and Harvard, and enough Wall Street gilt to keep everyone in country club fees.
Phillips elaborates on this critique during an interview.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A42831-2004Aug28.html   (771 words)

  
 Washington Phillips CD study
Bottom line: On his 16 extant recorded tracks, Washington Phillips is not playing a Dolceola, but a common fretless zither (most likely one or both of the Phonoharps in the photo), albeit with a unique, self-invented stringing and tuning pattern.
The 5th is Phillips' 85-year-old second cousin Earl Phillips, who provided many intriguing clues in a thirty minute phone conversation I had with him on April 1, 2003 (I have Michael Corcoran to thank for his leg-work and providing several phone numbers).
Phillips only occasionally mutes melody notes, and is probably “palming” or damping the bass and chords as they change.
www.minermusic.com /dolceola/phillips_study.htm   (4294 words)

  
 Crab meat, seafood restaurants, crab cakes, seafood gifts, fresh crabmeat from Phillips Seafood Restaurants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Phillips Seafood represents three generations of proud processing and preparation of superior-tasting crabmeat and Maryland style crab cakes for restaurants, chefs, seafood buyers, food distributors and brokers.
As the owners of Phillips Seafood Restaurants and seafood manufacturers, we understand the importance of quality - that's why we use crab meat from our own processing plants, use our own special blend of spices, and use our family recipes that have survived decades.
Our crab cakes have brought millions of customers into Phillips Seafood Restaurants and were named"Best"by Washingtonian Magazine.
www.phillipsfoods.com   (137 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | Music | Lift Him Up | 2003-02-13
Phillips was what they called a "jackleg" preacher, one who received the calling to spread the word but hadn't been ordained.
That Phillips was well-versed in the varying beliefs and customs of different churches is evident in "Denomination Blues," his most famous song via covers by Sister Rosetta Thorpe (who renamed it "That's All") and Ry Cooder.
That the Washington Phillips who was gospel's great disappearing act would take his eternal nap in the anonymous ground seems about par for this course in music history.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2003-02-13/music2.html   (2299 words)

  
 Homes of Calif. lawmaker, defense contractor raided - Boston.com - Washington - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal agents investigating the relationship between Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and a defense contractor searched the congressman's California home and the contractor's home and yacht, the U.S. Attorney's office said on Saturday.
Channing Phillips, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, declined comment on whether any materials were seized in Friday's raids, saying that the search warrants were under seal.
The Internal Revenue Service, the Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the FBI have joined the U.S. Attorney's office in the investigation of Cunningham and Mitchell Wade, who until recently was chief executive of MZM, a Washington-based government contractor that provides highly classified intelligence work for the Pentagon.
www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/02/homes_of_calif_lawmaker_defense_contractor_raided   (594 words)

  
 About Washington – Jonathan Phillips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Much of the land in E Washington is used for dry farming.
Washington leads the country in the production of apples, sweet cherries, and pears and is a major wheat producer, chiefly in the hilly southeastern Palouse area.
Washington is also a major producer of corn, onions, potatoes, apricots, grapes (including those made into wine), and other fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
www.totalclientfocus.com /About_Washington/page_117184.html   (342 words)

  
 Phillips Collection, Washington, DC - Southern Maryland Online
The Phillips Collection occupies a unique position in the United States and the nation's capital as the oldest museum of modern art in the country, and one of the most beloved museums of this city.
Founder Duncan Phillips opened the collection as a museum of modern art and its sources, believing strongly in the continuum of art and artists influencing their successors through the centuries.
Supported solely by Duncan Phillips during his lifetime, in the 1980's the museum underwent a period of intense growth and activity led by Laughlin Phillips, son of the museum founder and formerly a publisher and founder of Washingtonian magazine.
www.somd.com /Detailed/918.php   (790 words)

  
 Sidley Austin Brown & Wood | Our Professionals | Carter G. Phillips
Phillips is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Phillips is also on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University School of Law and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Georgetown University Law Center's Supreme Court Institute.
Phillips was selected by the American Lawyer as a member of the 45 Under 45 in 1995 and as one of the 100 Best Lawyers in America by The National Law Journal.
www.sidley.com /lawyers/bio.asp?ID=3913   (633 words)

  
 Phillips Collection, Washington DC Sightseeing-Travel Attractions-Must See Washington DC
Born in Pittsburgh in 1886, Duncan Phillips was the grandson of James Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
Duncan Phillips opened the Collection as a museum of modern art and its sources, believing strongly in the continuum of art and artists influencing their successors through the centuries.
The Phillips Collection is located in the Dupont Circle area, one-half block off of Massachusetts Avenue on 21st Street, between Q and R Streets.
www.mustseewashingtondc.com /attractions/phillips-collection.html   (395 words)

  
 Phillips Loses Washington State Race
Phillips' race was particularly interesting because one of the three other candidates was a medical doctor.
A Washington state senator with four years of political experience and a large advertising budget took the day.
Phillips ran openly as a doctor of chiropractic.
www.chiroweb.com /archives/16/21/21.html   (291 words)

  
 THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | Exhibitions
The series was inspired by a trip to Mexico more than 20 years ago; it builds from the artist’s memory of light and shadow playing on ancient Mayan ruins, and his exploration of surface texture and abstract forms evokes a range of emotional and narrative themes.
The exhibition is organized by The Phillips Collection with the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.
Organized by The Phillips Collection, this exhibition features nearly 140 photographs from the early years of Bourke-White's career, exploring the development of her aesthetic vision and her move toward photojournalism.
www.phillipscollection.org /html/exhibits.html   (1702 words)

  
 Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation, 524 U.S. 156 (1998)
NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued.
The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.
Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U.S. PHILLIPS et al.
straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/96-1578.ZS.html   (635 words)

  
 Items submitted by Mark Baber
Washington Times (1912) WIRELESS OPERATOR H. Harold Thomas Cottam
Washington Times (1912) HERBERT J. Herbert John Pitman
Washington Times (1912) SOCIETY IS SHOCKED AT NEWS OF DEATH
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /contributor.php?own=mab   (715 words)

  
 Roger J. Phillips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A particular area of interest is deciphering the evolution of Venus, an interesting exercise to explain the surface geology, topography, gravity field, and crater distribution in terms of the thermal and magmatic evolution of the planet.
Specifically, we propose that crustal plateaus formed early in the planet's history, when the lithosphere was thin, whereas volcanic rises form in the present era of thick lithosphere.
We have suggested [ Phillips and Hansen, 1998] that there could be a coupled, positive feedback between climate evolution and interior evolution, specifically that release of volatiles from partial melting would enhance the atmospheric greenhouse and raise the surface temperature.
epsc.wustl.edu /admin/people/phillips.html   (659 words)

  
 PHILLIPS
SERPTA "CAROLINE"2 PHILLIPS (STEPHEN D1) was born September 1836 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and died 1913 in Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia.
CHARLES HENRY2 PHILLIPS (STEPHEN D1) was born September 07, 1851 in Murray County, Georgia, and died August 20, 1916 in Walker County, Georgia.
LENA WALTER3 PHILLIPS (GEORGE WASHINGTON "WASH"2, STEPHEN D1) was born February 09, 1882 in Tunnel Hill, Whitfield County, Georgia, and died February 02, 1965 in Tunnel Hill, Whitfield County, Georgia.
www.angelfire.com /ga4/jholc/Phillips.html   (12028 words)

  
 THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | Visit
During its expansion, The Phillips Collection has sent approximately 55 of its greatest European masterworks, including Luncheon of the Boating Party, on tour to American museums and internationally through spring 2006.
The Phillips Collection is located on the right at 21st Street and Q. Directions from Virginia:
The Phillips Collection is located on the right at 21st Street and Q. From Richmond, I-95 and I-395 Take I-95 North to I-395, and continue until I-395 turns into the 14th Street bridge.
www.phillipscollection.org /html/visit.htm   (534 words)

  
 Graduate Programs at George Washington University
The George Washington University Chemistry Department is relatively small, with 13 faculty members and approximately 30 graduate students.
The George Washington University's outstanding program in Legislative Affairs can help you improve your effectiveness in government relations or start a new career as a lobbyist, government relations professional, legislative specialist, or political or policy analyst.
Instruction at the School is professional in orientation, and, in fact, is often taught by practitioner faculty from the Washington community.
schools.gradschools.com /graduate-schools/George-Washington.html   (1900 words)

  
 New Books at BGSU for February 2005 by Author part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : In association with Ruder Finn Press : Distributed by the University of Washington Press, c2004.
Washington, DC : American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, c1990.
Washington, D.C. : American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, c1988.
www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/cats/newbooks/nbau2205.htm   (8200 words)

  
 Phillips Family Genealogy: Web Site Links To Phillips Family"
Washington's Ancestry - Developed by Jim Weber with links to ancestors.
Washington's Descendents - Developed by Robert Ferguson Phillips and published by Bob Phillips.
This chart opens displaying Robert Ferguson Phillips who is (scan chart to right), son of Robert Ellsworth, son of Ellsworth Washington, son of Washington.
www.nbrhd.net /genealogy/washingtonphillips.htm   (93 words)

  
 George Washington Phillips / Mary Adelaide Phillips
Name: George Washington Phillips Born: 5 May 1859 at Todd, Ashe, NC Married: 1885 Died: 9 Mar 1937 at Jonhson City, Washington, TN Father: Elijah Phillips Mother: Matilda Martin
Name: Mary Adelaide Phillips Born: 9 Nov 1865 at, Ashe, NC Died: 19 Jun 1948 at Johnson City,, TN Name: Avery E Phillips Born: Dec 1886 Died: Wife: Bertha Shell
Name: Pearl Phillips Born: 1910 Died: 1939 at Johnson City, Washington, TN Husband: Robert Gobble
www.e-familytree.net /F107/F107383.htm   (312 words)

  
 Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.
Respondents are the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), Michael Mazzone, and William Summers.
WLF is a public-interest law and policy center with members in the State of Texas who are opposed to the Texas IOLTA program.
lw.bna.com /lw/19980616/961578.htm   (7167 words)

  
 Berschauer Phillips Construction Company- Olympia Area General Contractors
BPCC is named one of the largest 150 private companies of Washington State by Washington CEO
Berschauer Phillips Construction Company is an award winning general contracting firm providing professional construction services throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Our project portfolio includes new construction and renovations of vehicle maintenance facilities and transit centers, hospitals and clinics, commercial, office, retail, industrial, institutional, and governmental buildings.
www.bp-construction.com   (104 words)

  
 George W. Phillips picture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND SARAH AMANDA (TINER) PHILLIPS, picture taken around 1900.
George Washington Phillips was born in Benton County, Arkansas March 25, 1856.
George Washington Phillips died June 24, 1904 in the Indian Territory.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~rayphill/gwphlpic.htm   (74 words)

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