Sentence examples for the wah from inspiring English sources
From there, the wah went wild.
"I feel gratified that I was there at the beginning," Mr. Casher says, noting that bands from Pearl Jam to U2 have recorded with the wah.
On a stretch of Mulberry Street last month, squeezed between Columbus Park and the Wah Lai Funeral Home, a snare drum rolled, and dignified brass horns answered.
"Any country with an expanding middle class and a rising number of unemployed graduates is in for trouble," said Gerard A. Postiglione, the director of the Wah Ching Center of Research on Education in China at Hong Kong University.
"With anything like this, mysteries abound about who did what when," says Art Thompson, a senior editor at Guitar Player magazine who has looked into the history of what he refers to simply as "the wah".
The Chinese Community Centre on Duke Street will see performances by the Wah Sing singing and dance groups, as well as Tibetan dancing, Cantonese opera, gymnastics, karaoke and other events.
The wah-wah had finally broken through.
"They'd come up with this wacka-wacka-wacka sound by making the wah-wah move up and down like a cymbal," he says.
The only person who seemed interested in the wah-wah was a film composer, Vic Mizzy, known for writing the "Addams Family" theme.
"If you really want to say who was the grandfather of the wah-wah," Mr. Casher says, "it was Dick Denney".
But there is one accomplishment that Mr. Casher, now 73, wishes more people knew about: his role in the invention of the wah-wah pedal.
