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- Dombra (1417 bytes)
7: ...fretted, while the Kazakh dombra is played with a fret. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
19: ... [[Great Neck, New York]]. The producer had suddenly fired the play's original leading lady and asked...
30: ...feminist icon, at the time made studio executives fret that she would never become a superstar. Off-set...
50: ... working-class machismo. Tracy seemed to be the only one Hepburn would allow to tame her. When [[Jos...
70: ...Mrs. Venable in [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' (1959) and as Mary Tyrone in the...
149: * ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' ([[1959]])—[[Academy Award... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...PA|/jukəleɪli/}}), or '''uke''', is a [[fret]]ted [[string instrument]] which is, in its const...
3: It is commonly associated with [[music]] from [[Hawaii]] where ...
36: * [[Dan Scanlan]] ("Cool Hand Uke")
73: [[nl:Ukelele]] - Banjo (6143 bytes)
8: ... tube in the neck where it exits near the fifth [[fret]].
10: ... metal, although [[nylon]] and gut used on simple fretless banjos and by players of the classical banjo ...
18: ...GBd. In earlier times, the tuning gCGBd was commonly used instead. Other tunings common in old-time ...
20: ...ng can be hooked to keep it pressed down on the [[fret]].
22: ...a single one held between thumb and forefinger), unlike the five-string banjo, which is almost always ... - Appalachian dulcimer (3259 bytes)
3: ... or elliptical shape. A courting dulcimer has two fretboards allowing two players to closely sit across ...
5: ...d pluck or strum the strings with one hand, while fretting with the other. In practice, a wide variety o...
10: The [[fret]]s of the Appalachian dulcimer are arranged in a ... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
18: ...ique is the use of the [[left]]-hand [[thumb]] to fret notes on the bottom string, particularly on the p...
24: ...om [[Central Asia]], from whence several kinds of fretted long-necked [[chordophone]]s stem, including t...
26: ... Asian instruments described above. Similarly, [[fret]]s on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut ... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
21: ...pointment was made at the suggestion of Angelico only after the archbishopric had been offered to him,...
23: ...and made the offer to Fra Giovanni, for Nicholas only succeeded in 1447. The whole statement lacks aut...
37: ...f execution, he undoubtedly falls far short, not only of his great naturalist contemporaries such as [... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...lute''' is a plucked [[string instrument]] with a fretted neck and a deep round back. It evolved from an...
7: ...he strings. Unlike most stringed instruments, the fretboard is mounted flush with the top. The ''tuning ...
9: ... be replaced frequently. A few additional partial frets of wood are usually glued to the body of the ins...
11: ...h the highest-pitched course usually consists of only a single string, called the ''chantrelle'' (Fren...
25: ...es, the bass strings no longer even ran above the fretboard. - Guitar (36953 bytes)
2: ...es [[steel]] strings and more guide dots on the [[fretboard]].]]
41: ...mine the '''action''' -- the distance between the fretboard and the strings.The nut's quality can greatl...
43: ==='''Fretboard'''===
44: ...ctly before the finger). Fretboards are most commonly made of [[rosewood]], [[ebony]], and [[maple]].
46: ...s feature is important in playing [[harmonics]]. Frets are available in several different gauges, depen... - Musical notation (19883 bytes)
1: ... all players together, while '''parts''' contain only the music played by an individual musician. A s...
10: ...e of a complete composition — indeed the ''only'' surviving complete composition using this nota...
25: ...s to be held flat or sharp throughout the piece, unless otherwise indicated. The key signature is pre...
27: ...beat of each bar is generally stressed. Less commonly, music that lacks rigid rhythmic organization is...
41: ...d not exactly express pitch or time and served mainly as a reminder to one who already knew the tune, ...
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