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Updated: June 9, 2025
And so the sound rises and falls, swells and dwindles away in chords and harmonies, until presently every amphibian is alert and tremulous with emotion and emulation. If an attempt is made to analyse the music, you may discover sounds sharp as those of the fife, deep and hollow as drum-beats, sonorous and acrid, tinny and mellow.
In crossing the meadows the autumn sun swung into their faces, a comfortable solace on a morning drive, exciting them forward toward Camberton that they might report in the little stucco chapel while the tinny college bell was still harshly calling to prayer.
There was a sudden jostling among the dancers on the floor then an oath, rising high above the riot of talk and laughter a swirl of figures a medley of shouts and women's screams, drowning out the squeak of the musicians' violins and the thump of the tinny piano. Jimmie Dale's jaws locked hard together.
The Spider had not unshrewdly chosen his location; nor the proprietor of "The Yellow Lantern" his their clientele was a common one, and their interests did not clash! From the direction of "The Yellow Lantern" came a hilarious uproar, subdued somewhat by the distance, out of which arose the strident notes of a tinny piano beating blatantly the measure of a turkey trot. There was no other sound.
Even little Trotty shrilled out her tinny treble, without knowing in the least what the joke was. When the merriment was at its height, the front door opened and in walked Mahony. An instant's blank amazement, and he had grasped the whole situation Richard was always so fearfully quick at understanding, thought Polly ruefully.
It had an odd, tinny sound like cracked metal. He released her suddenly, almost flinging her from him, and she staggered a little, catching at the back of a chair to steady herself. His roughness roused her spirit. "Eliot! Are you mad?" she exclaimed. He stared at her, that burning ferocity of almost uncontrollable anger which had possessed him dying slowly out of his face. "Mad?" he said grimly.
They greeted me heartily, but their heartiness had rather a tinny sound, and I could see that on the whole they regarded me as one of those things which should not happen. But when I told my story their attitude changed. They began to look on me in the pleasanter light of a guardian, philosopher, and friend. "Wherever did Mr. Paterson get such a silly idea?" said Miss Boyd, indignantly.
Nothing can be more lovely than this late autumn day, so still, save for the droning of the thresher and the constant tinny chuckle of the grey, thin-headed Guinea-fowl, driven by this business away from their usual haunts.
Here, a saloon flung a sudden glow of yellow light athwart the sidewalk as its swinging doors jerked apart; and a form lurched out into the night; there, from a dance-hall came the rattle of a tinny piano, the squeak of a raspy violin, a high-pitched, hectic burst of laughter; while, flanking the street on each side, like interjected inanimate blotches, rows of squalid tenements and cheap, tumble-down frame houses silhouetted themselves in broken, jagged points against the sky-line.
He distributed sheets of paper. "Act One, Opening Chorus. I will play the melody three four times. Follow attentively. Then we will sing it la-la-la, and after that we will sing the words. So!" He struck the yellow-keyed piano a vicious blow, producing a tinny and complaining sound.
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