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[[Image:Bicycle.jpg|frame|From local newspaper in [[Cucamonga]], 1963]]
'''Unknown Source''', 1963<br>


[[Biography|Frank Zappa]], 22, Ontario resident composer of music, serious and otherwise, will be on television tomorrow night playing a bicycle concerto for two with [[Steve Allen]]. The show is at 11 p.m., Channel 5. "It's very funny," said Zappa. "You play a bicycle by plucking the spokes and blowing through the handlebars." Other methods of producing "cyclophony" is to stroke the spokes with the bow of a bass fiddle, twirl the pedals and let air out of the tires. The Zappa-Allen concerto will be abetted by a man in the control room fooling around with a tape recorder and by a jazz group will supply toneless background noise.
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Zappa studied music and art at [[Chaffey College]]. He wrote the score for "[[The World’s Greatest Sinner (The Film)|The World's Greatest Sinner]]," a low-budget tale about a sacrilegious imposter who repents. "Sinner" had its premiere at Vista-Continental Theater, [[Hollywood]], and open Wednesday at the Ken Theater, [[San Diego]]. Zappa writes musical commercials for TV and radio. They are recorded at [[Pal Studio]], [[Cucamonga]].

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