He was a child prodigy on the inanga, a sort of guitar, and the iningiri, a one-string violin with a calabash tone box.
To experience one of the two pieces that make up "Ear Tone Box," you sit in a chair with your head enclosed in a metal box that's affixed to the wall and listen to high piping and chirping sounds that could be coming from the box, from your head, from your cellphone or from the gallery beyond.
There's an oversize fold-over clutch, which doubles as a laptop case, $300; a tote with a detachable shoulder strap (above), $460; and the two-tone box bag at right, $380, already carried by the fashion enthusiast and vegan Anne Hathaway.
If you do this, be sure to check the "Tones" tab in the iTunes window when you connect the device to the computer, and check the "Sync Tones" box.
He laid out his 1,000-square-foot 1,000-square-foot 1,000-square-footent, with kitchen, living, dining and bedroom areas, and filled it with an ever-changing mistore-scène of artifacts — melikene nesting bowls, Moroccan lantereal jewel-tone glapartment that looked plucked from a Paris flea market — and brightly colored contemporary furniture, like Parsons tables covered with lacquered grass cloth.
We conditioned the rat in the usual way and then a couple of days later played the tone in another box.
Occasionally one misses the effects: if he has a magical, extra-soft tone in his box of tricks, we don't hear it, even in the gently rocking Berceuse that clears the air after the fourth Ballade.
"You got that for the fight?" Getting no response, the father asked, "When are you going to fight again?" Leonard set the tone for Jewish boxing — and beyond.
The owners should retreat to their boxes and tone down the rhetoric.
Similarly, the layered sound scores by Alex Potts and Thomas Mapfumo move from an uninspired collage of bad news to effective touches like the "Ode to Joy" rendered in the fragile tones of a music box.
While hactivist groups like Anonymous and Lulz have gained international notoriety, following attacks on Sony, the US Senate and the CIA, the precursor to their work dates back to the 1960s, when "phone freaks" or "phreakers" used "blue boxes" as tone generators to make free phone calls.
