The first musical instrument called " vibraphone " was marketed by the Leedy Manufacturing Company in the United States in 1921.

The Leedy vibraphone achieved a degree of popularity after it was used in the novelty recordings of " Aloha ' Oe " and " Gypsy Love Song " by vaudeville performer Louis Frank Chiha (" Signor Frisco ").

Schluter's design was more popular than the Leedy design, and has become the template for all instruments called vibraphone today.

* Robert Franklin Leedy ( 28 July 1863-12 January 1924 ) was a lawyer, soldier, and Virginia state legislator.

According to Leedy ( 1980 ), the fan vault was developed in England ( as opposed to France and other centres of gothic architecture ) due to the manner in which English rib vaults were normally constructed.

Gene Leedy has been one of the pioneers of the modern movement in Florida and was one of the founders of the now famous " Sarasota School of Architecture ," including Paul Rudolph, Victor Lundy, Mark Hampton and others.

Gene Leedy was born to Cecil Hudgins Leedy and Ethyl Ferguson Leedy on February 6, 1928 in Isaban, West Virginia.

Cecil Leedy was a supervisor for a coal mining company and Ethyl taught school in a one-room schoolhouse.

Their son, Robert Hoge Leedy, was born in Winter Haven on October 17th, 1956.

A daughter, Marjorie " Saffie " Ingram Leedy, was born October 25, 1962 and later a son, Ingram Leedy, was born November 1, 1969.

Gene Leedy was selected as one the Architectural Records successful young architects in 1965 with a published portfolio of his work.

As its popularity grew, other manufacturers began producing instruments based on Schluter's design, marketed under a variety of names, including Leedy, who marketed their new instrument as the vibraphone and abandoned their old design.

Pete lands safely on the ground and is escorted away by paramedics, but spots Leedy wearing a DEA jacket leaving the scene, one of the team members, Swoop ( Kyle Secor ) leaps from the building parachuting down onto Leedy stopping him in his tracks.

Leedy married Kathryn " Bebe " Hoge, of Tampa, Florida on July 20, 1950 in Arlington, Virginia.

Gene Leedy later married Marjorie Frances Ingram on March 6, 1960.

However, Schluter didn't just copy the Leedy design, he introduced several significant improvements: making the bars from aluminum instead of steel for a more " mellow " basic tone ; adjustments to the dimensions and tuning of the bars to eliminate the dissonant harmonics in the Leedy design ( further mellowing the tone ); and the introduction of a damper bar controlled by a foot pedal, enabling it to be played with more expression.

Leedy and Jenco ceased operations.

For the first few years of production the original Leedy Vibraphone did not include a mechanism for damping, or stopping, the sustaining tones.

Studio percussion legend Emil Richards acquired a Leedy soprano vibraphone ( 3-octave range of C4-C7 ) in the 1980s from craftsman and restorer Gilberto at Century Mallet Service in Chicago ( run out of the old J. C. Deagan Instruments factory ).

The contemporary composer Douglas Leedy has written several works for harpsichord or organ in which the use of a well temperament is required.

* 1940's 6. 5 " x 14 " black finished Leedy Broadway wood Snare

* Kansas: John W. Leedy, 1897 – 1899

Pran Nath's students included La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Terry Riley, Michael Harrison, Sargam Shah, Charlemagne Palestine, Henry Flynt, Jon Hassell, Douglas Leedy, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz, Jon Gibson, Yoshi Wada, Rhys Chatham, W. A. Mathieu, Sufi Pir Shabda Kahn, Catherine Christer Hennix, George Brooks ( Saxophonist ), and Simone Forti.

In 1957, intrigued by the sound of a kind of drum made by Leedy ( then owned by Slingerland ), he had a line made for him that also became popular with other drummers.

Wolf studied composition with Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, and La Monte Young, as well as musical tunings with Erv Wilson and Douglas Leedy and ethnomusicology ( M. A., Ph. D. 1990 Wesleyan University ).

* Leedy, Walter C. ( 1975 ) “ Design of the Vaulting of Henry VII ’ s Chapel, Westminster: A Reappraisal .” Architectural History 18, 5-96.

* Leedy, Jr., Walter C. ( 1980 ).

Ty plans to use Leedy to hack into the DEA mainframe computer in Washington DC so Ty can auction off the names of undercover agents to drug cartels worldwide.

During the 1920s Conn owned the Elkhart Band Instrument Company ( 1923-7 ), the Leedy Company ( 1927 – 55 ), a manufacturer of percussion, 49. 9 % of the stock of H. & A. Selmer ( 1923-7 ), and two subsidiaries, the Continental Music Company and the Pan American Band Instrument Company, ( which had been founded and owned by Greenleaf ).

Clockwise from left: Ginny ( Luana Patten ), Uncle Remus ( James Baskett ), Johnny ( Bobby Driscoll ) and Toby ( Glenn Leedy )

Clockwise from left: Ginny ( Luana Patten ), Uncle Remus ( James Baskett ), Johnny ( Bobby Driscoll ) and Toby ( Glenn Leedy )

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

That such deficiencies existed within Ptolemy's theory was not discovered de novo by Copernicus.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

The reporters had not yet discovered that this was his hideaway.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

He never rested until he discovered who the culprit was, and when he did, he vowed vengeance on Viola Lake if ever the chance came his way.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

Let us put to ourselves the hypothesis that we had not come on the scene and that the rabbit never was discovered.

Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.

Hudson pointed the Discovery down the east coast of the newly discovered sea ( now called Hudson Bay ), confident he was on his way to the warm waters of the Pacific.

The shortage was discovered after Huff failed to report for work on Sept. 18.

And so I was really upset the first time I discovered that my boy friend Johnnie was seeing Mrs. Warren.

His heart, he discovered, was pounding.

They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.