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Charles Brenton Fisk
Charles Brenton Fisk (February 7, 1925 – December 16, 1983) was an American Organ-builder, pipe organ builder. He was one of the first to use mechanical tracker actions instead of electro-pneumatic actions in modern organ construction. Originally involved in the Manhattan Project, Fisk made a career change from atomic physics to organ building. He later co-founded C.B. Fisk, C.B. Fisk, Inc., an organ building firm. Life and career Early life and education Fisk was born in Washington, DC, United States on February 7, 1925. His parents were Brenton Kern Fisk, a lawyer, and Amelia Worthington Fisk, a social worker and women's suffrage, suffragette. In the early 1930s, the Fisk family moved to the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a soprano, he joined the choir of the Christ Church (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Christ Church of the Cambridge Common, at which E. Power Biggs was the choirmaster and the organist. Fisk reports that at this point in lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
