When cuneiform writing was first invented in ancient Sumer, the scribes scratched signs on the moist clay by means of a pointed instrument. |
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But, the iron lady's needle is not like the instrument of a flesh and blood seamstress. |
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When you blow into the instrument, the air vibrates the reed. |
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Each side has grilles in order to facilitate the transmission of air in and out of the instrument, and to allow the sound to better project. |
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Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. |
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Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their instrument. |
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They see the state as a partisan instrument that primarily serves the interests of the upper class. |
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Anarchists believe that the state is inherently an instrument of domination and repression, no matter who is in control of it. |
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O'Shaughnessy's instrument was used all over India until early 1857, when it was supplanted by the Morse instrument. |
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This instrument takes advantage of the traditional monotrocar to enter in the abdominal cavity. |
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Cavendish worked with his instrument makers, generally improving existing instruments rather than inventing wholly new ones. |
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Another common instrument, unique to Swedish traditions, is the nyckelharpa. |
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Composers such as Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega established the guitar as Spain's national instrument. |
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The instrument most commonly associated with Wales is the harp, which is generally considered to be the country's national instrument. |
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The accordion also began to be a central instrument at Highland balls and dances. |
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The latest revival of traditional music from the late 1970s also revived the interest in this versatile instrument. |
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The mandolin is becoming a somewhat more common instrument amongst Irish traditional musicians. |
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Angered by the audience's laughter, he smashed the instrument on the stage, then picked up another guitar and continued the show. |
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Townshend also produced noises by manipulating controls on his guitar and by allowing the instrument to feedback. |
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Nevertheless, Maxime Weygand signed the surrender instrument and the army was ordered out of their fortifications, to be taken to POW camps. |
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A decision is an instrument which is focused at a particular person or group and is directly applicable. |
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The cornu, a long tubular metal wind instrument that curved around the musician's body, was used for military signals and on parade. |
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Thomson's energetic lobbying and networking proved effective in gaining acceptance of his instrument by The Admiralty. |
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The dilruba was designed by Guru Gobind Singh at the request of his followers, who wanted a smaller instrument than the taus. |
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Other pipers have chosen to explore more creative usages of the instrument. |
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The harp was regarded as the national instrument until it was replaced with the Highland bagpipes in the 15th century. |
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The earliest Irish word for a harp is in fact Cruit, a word which strongly suggests a Pictish provenance for the instrument. |
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However, it has been suggested that the instrument previously existed in Scotland before its reintroduction. |
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The Great Highland bagpipe is classified as a woodwind instrument, like the bassoon, oboe, and clarinet. |
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The Great Highland Bagpipe plays a role as both a solo and ensemble instrument. |
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In Oman, the instrument is called habban and is used in cities such as Muscat, Salalah, and Sohar. |
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The first instrument associated with the harping tradition in the Gaelic world was known as a cruit. |
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This word may originally have described a different stringed instrument, being etymologically related to the Welsh crwth. |
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The violin is also considered a very expressive instrument, which is often felt to approximate the human voice. |
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The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument are documented during the first decades of the 20th century. |
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When played as a folk instrument, the violin is ordinarily referred to in English as a fiddle. |
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The Indian violin, while essentially the same instrument as that used in Western music, is different in some senses. |
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The way the musician holds the instrument varies from Western to Indian music. |
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Nevertheless, in Europe and North America, some popular music acts also make use of the instrument. |
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The piano accordion is the official city instrument of San Francisco, California. |
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There are also straps above and below the bellows to keep it securely closed when the instrument is not playing. |
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The accordion is a free reed instrument and is in the same family as other instruments such as the sheng and khaen. |
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An instrument called accordion was first patented in 1829 by Cyrill Demian, of Armenian origin, in Vienna. |
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Although best known as a folk instrument, it has grown in popularity among classical composers. |
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Compared to many other countries, the instrument enjoys in Brazil high popularity in mainstream pop music. |
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The accordion is also a traditional instrument in Colombia, commonly associated with the vallenato and cumbia genres. |
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When the airport installed the new instrument landing system the single track road had to be closed altogether. |
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He enjoyed music, including Welsh music and the newly invented crwth instrument, as well as musical organs. |
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It stabilizes the vocal instrument, thereby providing extended capacity for high notes as well as nonwobbly, audible low notes. |
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James James, the composer, was a harpist who played his instrument in the public house which he ran, for the purpose of dancing. |
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Many experiments have been made, with a view of obviating the necessity of tuning the instrument every time a change in the key occurred. |
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Richard Barrett, who includes the instrument in the diverse ensemble of his massive multipartite work, Construction. |
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In Roman mythology, the instrument was played by Mercury, the messenger of the gods. |
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The most popular traditional musical instrument, the guitar, originated in Spain. |
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That distance can be displayed on an instrument, and it may also be available via the transponder. |
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They also learned to sing and play one musical instrument and were trained as athletes for military service. |
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Hendrix played a variety of guitars throughout his career, but the instrument that became most associated with him was the Fender Stratocaster. |
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Then, as the theatergoers arrived, he began to play amelodically, as if tuning his instrument. |
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It had been struck by some heavy blunt instrument, but the skull was not broken. |
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One deep wound had been inflicted upon the temple, apparently with some blunt instrument, which had penetrated the brain. |
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The law is a woefully blunt instrument when it comes to domestic violence of all kinds. |
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Just like bought-and-paid-for politicians and bought-and-paid-for media, bought-and-paid-for scientists are an instrument of corporate power. |
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The CRF is the most commonly used data collection instrument or tool in clinical trials. |
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The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. |
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Accompanying himself with his dulcimer, a plectrum instrument of his own handicraft, Niles harks back to the balladeers of old. |
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The dulzaina was a double-reed folk instrument, similar to the oboe, which comes from north-central Spain. |
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For ecopoets language is an instrument that the poet continually refurbishes to articulate his originary experience in nature. |
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At present, no single instrument can replace excisional biopsies for obtaining information. |
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It's not easy to get down with a group in which every instrument except the drums is doing it's own thing. |
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The hawk boy's server is about the size and shape of a common garden hoe, but the handle is in the direction of the instrument. |
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Calsonic Kansei UK, formerly Magna, make automotive instrument panels and car trim at the Pennywell Industrial Estate. |
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The Scottish and English parliaments established a commission to negotiate a union, formulating an instrument of union between the two countries. |
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The bellows is the most recognizable part of the instrument, and the primary means of articulation. |
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The karaoke machine is much more than an instrument which allows us to be a star for three minutes. |
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The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer. |
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The instrument had to be soaked in water for a short time so the languette became soft again. |
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John Dunn, inventor of keyed Northumbrian smallpipes, the most characteristic musical instrument in the region, lived and worked in the city. |
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Generally, independent central banks enjoy both goal and instrument independence. |
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In the hands of a designing executive, a standing army was the classic instrument of liberticide. |
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Like elsewhere in central Africa, the likembe in Angola was an instrument of the emerging working class and, as such, it was also inter-ethnic. |
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His tone lingered in the air, almost like the tone of a musical instrument. |
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In 1776 Captain Cook ordered an instrument from Boulton, most likely for use in navigation. |
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While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines. |
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The most useful instrument for analyzing the performance of steam engines is the steam engine indicator. |
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Folk music is accompanied by the ektara, an instrument with only one string. |
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The state can thus be deemed a significant but not essential instrument of the Holy See. |
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One part of the instrument, the Celestial Organ, is currently not connected or playable. |
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The fire of 1829 destroyed the organ and the basis of the present organ dates from 1832, when Elliot and Hill constructed a new instrument. |
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The case remained intact, but the organ was mechanically new, retaining the largest pipes of the former instrument. |
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Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed. |
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Some modern Druids also use ritual staves, a symbolic magical instrument long associated with both Druids and wizards generally. |
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A population census is a key instrument for assessing the needs of local communities. |
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The instrument used to mark the passage of a watch was the buccina, from which the trumpet derives. |
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Apparently the giant will awaken only if a specific musical instrument is played near the hill. |
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These are still used today, but the most common instrument is the melodeon. |
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The hornpipe is a style of dance music thought to have taken its name from an English reed instrument by at least the 17th century. |
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Schoelcher speculates that his youthful devotion to the instrument explains the large number of pieces he composed for oboe. |
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All the songs have subtly different orchestrations, with a prominent obbligato part for a different instrument in each. |
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At the age of twelve he took up the trombone at Adolph's suggestion, thinking that playing a brass instrument might improve his asthma. |
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Although the organ was not his preferred instrument, the only post he ever held for an annual salary was as a church organist and choirmaster. |
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Baines soon suggests that Alisdair trade the instrument to him for some land. |
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In England, meanwhile, Harrison met sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, who agreed to train him on the instrument. |
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Instead of having full verses and choruses, he picked out vocal phrases and played them like an instrument, using sampling technology. |
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Among the instrument groups and within each group of instruments, there is a generally accepted hierarchy. |
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One was to launch a new keyboard instrument, a hybrid between the pianoforte and the organ, which during its brief life span was known as the aeolomelodicon. |
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Some early portable instrument with piano keys had been invented in 1821, but it started to actually be played much later, and built its reputation from there. |
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There will also be a short set by Roberto Corona and Stefano Pinna, who'll play the launeddas, an ancient Sardinian triple-reed instrument that produces a bagpipelike drone. |
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If the reader finds a certain monotony in the words chosen by the translator I hope he will realize that the bandsman has to operate within the limits of his instrument. |
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The instrument arrived late in the 17th century, and is first mentioned in 1680 in a document from Newbattle Abbey in Midlothian, Lessones For Ye Violin. |
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The instrument was noted in The Times of that year as one new to British audiences and not favourably reviewed, but nevertheless it soon became popular. |
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Some popular acts do use the instrument in their distinctive sounds. |
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The analyst is in a sense a blunt instrument, but he can work as somebody who cares, and I think a good analyst makes the patient feel that he has value. |
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Shoegaze combines ethereal, swirling vocals with layers of distorted, bent, flanged guitars, creating a wash of sound where no instrument is distinguishable from another. |
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Today the whistle is a very common instrument in recorded Scottish music. |
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Music discoursed on that melodious instrument, a Jew's harp, keeps the elfin women away from the hunter, because the tongue of the instrument is of steel. |
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The repertoire of surviving crwth tunes is very small, although many other traditional tunes can be adapted for the instrument and new tunes are being written for it. |
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The accordion is a traditional instrument in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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We report 5 kHz narrowband Z mode emissions observed by the Cassini Radio and Plasma Waves Science instrument during high latitude perikrone passes. |
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A lutenist or theorbo player could lead by lifting the instrument neck up and down to indicate the tempo of a piece, or to lead a ritard during a cadence or ending. |
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In the United Kingdom the HSE has issued a user guidance note on selecting the correct portable radiation measurement instrument for the application concerned. |
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The instrument used in this study would be helpful to foretest advisees and hence would facilitate advisor's work in the direction of detecting maladjustments. |
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At any home International Scotland Rugby union test match the first verse is accompanied by bagpipes followed by the third verse unaccompanied by any instrument. |
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This process will be performed at the second reading of a bill or instrument and is currently undergoing a trial period, as an attempt at answering the West Lothian question. |
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This covers all radiation instrument technologies, and is a useful comparative guide for selecting the correct technology for the contamination type. |
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Overall this meant reduced training on operational types, formation flying, gunnery training, and combat training, and a total lack of instrument training. |
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A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value. |
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Lassalle considered the state to be an entity independent of class allegiances and an instrument of justice that would therefore be essential for achieving socialism. |
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Cromwell's new rights and powers were laid out in the Humble Petition and Advice, a legislative instrument which replaced the Instrument of Government. |
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In these lessons, the prince was taught that he was predestined to become an instrument of Divine Providence, fulfilling the historical destiny of the House of Orange. |
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The Commission will then propose a financial instrument run by the European Investment Bank to provide debt and equity finance for cultural and creative industries. |
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In its modern form the lagerphone is of Australian origin and is a percussive instrument that produces a rhythmic effect similar to that of the tambourine. |
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A string quartet similarly has parts for first and second violins, as well as a viola part, and a bass instrument, such as the cello or, rarely, the double bass. |
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Another important instrument is the sheng, pipes, an ancient instrument that is ancestor of all Western free reed instruments, such as the accordion. |
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The still shawm disappeared from the musical scene some time in the 16th century, and the instrument found on the Mary Rose is the only surviving example. |
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The former feared that it would be used as an instrument of royal tyranny. |
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You shall not, I repeat, not, touch them with your finely sharpened number-two pencils or any other marking instrument until you are explicitly told to do so. |
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The premier Luo musical instrument is the nyatiti, a lyre of eight strings converging inside a hide resonator, all housed in a trapezoid wooden frame. |
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Tradition holds that seven years learning, seven years practising and seven years playing is required before a piper could be said to have mastered his instrument. |
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This allows the instrument to be played chromatically in melody. |
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In June 1776 Cook left on the voyage on which he was killed almost three years later, and Boulton's records show no further mention of the instrument. |
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Dublin native James Keane brought the instrument to New York where he maintained an influential recording and performing career from the 1970s to the present. |
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The violin is also a principal instrument for Indian film music. |
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A practical application of the Coriolis effect is the mass flow meter, an instrument that measures the mass flow rate and density of a fluid flowing through a tube. |
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Hughes especially notes Sullivan's clarinet writing, exploiting all registers and colours of the instrument, and his particular fondness for oboe solos. |
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Entwistle's bass became more of a lead instrument, playing melodies. |
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Eight experienced pilots and eight non-rated individuals flew simulated instrument training circuits while eye movements were recorded with infrared oculometry. |
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The instrument greatly suited Sellers's temperament and artistic skills. |
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They retained several registers from the previous instrument. |
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His sister Hermine said that Wittgenstein working as an elementary teacher was like using a precision instrument to open crates, but the family decided not to interfere. |
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Anaximander is credited with the invention of the gnomon, the simple, yet efficient Greek instrument that allowed the early measurement of latitude. |
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The convention was opened for signature on 10 December 1982 and entered into force on 16 November 1994 upon deposition of the 60th instrument of ratification. |
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The drums are the most dominant instrument in popular Kenyan music. |
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Inside the accordion are the reeds that generate the instrument tones. |
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Typically, these magnetic anomaly detectors are flown in aircraft like the UK's Nimrod or towed as an instrument or an array of instruments from surface ships. |
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She told him that he could keep the instrument, which had only one string. |
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Such was not an uncommon practice in the days before standardized pitch and was, in fact, mentioned in other manuals on string instrument playing. |
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Demian's instrument bore little resemblance to modern instruments. |
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