Saying that the Italian word for offices sounded like Uffizi, the renowned art museum in Florence, Italy, Mr. Graves insisted, "That's what we're going to do".
The name came because many thought all the clinking pianos in the various publishers' offices sounded like tin pans rattling.
The office sound system can rival a dance club's, and there are assortments of bagels, croissants and sandwiches at the numerous sleek, black food counters.
When a Canadian reporter visited Pimco's California offices, Gross inaugurated a new morning tradition, blasting Short Skirt/Long Jacket by Cake over the office sound system and leading a Conga line past astounded traders, more accustomed to his insistence that no one make eye contact with him.
With his collection of fitted caps, designer sneakers and an office sound system that's always tuned to hip-hop, Deputat's image has been shaped by the music he loves.
Tanis also used some "reversed" ship's bells as well as crystal glass rubs in order to make Bell's office sound like multiple layers of glass and bell sounds; he referred to the scene as "a little ominous" but not "too cliche".
Lincoln had mastered the sound of the King James Bible so completely that he could recast abstract issues of constitutional law in Biblical terms, making the proposition that Texas and New Hampshire should be forever bound by a single post office sound like something right out of Genesis.
Dr Gael Claquin, national protection officer for TB in the World Health Organisation's Mozambique office, sounds one note of caution, pointing out that improving diagnosis across the country will increase the workload for health services as more people need care.
