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- String instrument (8163 bytes)
1: ...] that produces [[sound]] by means of [[vibrating string]]s. In the [[Hornbostel-Sachs]] scheme of [[music...
3: ==Sound production in string instruments==
4: ...AGK bass1 full.jpg|thumb|The string bass is often plucked or bowed depending on the genre and piece.]]
5: ...string instrument to produce sound, its string or strings must vibrate. There are three common ways of bri...
7: ...layed by drawing a [[bow (music)|bow]] across the strings.
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- Dombra (1417 bytes)
3: The '''dombra''' is a long-necked, two-[[stringed instrument]], possessing a resonating chamber, ...
5: ..., modern dombras are usually produced using nylon strings.
7: ... is usually unfretted, while the Kazakh dombra is played with a fret.
14: * [[domra]] (a similarly pronounced Russian string instrument)
15: * [[kobyz]] (a bowed instrument, played like a [[cello]]) - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ..., her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. S...
23: *String Quartet No. 1 (1971)
27: *Concerto for bassoon and low strings (1975)
37: *''Sieben W?'' for cello, bayan, and strings (1982) - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...rson]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section--a musical environment that is radically ...
11: ... an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bessie b...
17: ...ax's perpetuation of the myth is all the more inexplicable when one considers a letter received by his...
19: ...eath without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit her. And...
25: A more recent play featuring 14 of the songs Smith made famous, ''... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
39: ..., and slight amounts of chemical processing takes place, especially on protein, by the enzymes present...
47: ...er organ systems (for instance, nerves and blood) play a major role in the digestive system.
55: ...in the mouth, when we chew and swallow, and is completed in the small intestine. The chemical process ...
75: ...olve the tissue of the stomach itself. In most people, the stomach mucosa is able to resist the juice,...
86: ...ontain most of their energy as carbohydrates. Examples are bread, potatoes, legumes, rice, corn, noodl... - Music (16462 bytes)
11: *[[String instruments]]
20: ... no regular pulse;<sup>[[#Notes|5]]</sup> one example is the [[alap]] section of a [[Hindustani music]...
38: ...ovised solo playing for one's enjoyment to highly planned and organized performance rituals such as th...
49: ...not'' preconceived. However, many cultures and people do not have this distinction at all, using a bro...
51: ... a "process" which may create musical sounds, examples of this range from wind chimes, through compute... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
5: ...d by varying the force of the tangent against the string, which is known as ''[[bebung]]'', and can be use...
7: ...ften built ''unfretted'', with a separate pair of strings for each key.
11: ...c)|organ]] from the period circa 1400-1800 can be played on the clavichord; however, it is too quiet t...
15: ... uses a magnetic pickup to provide a signal for amplification. - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...d to mean various things from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a printed document showing h...
8: ...nomy]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds: [[musica universalis]],...
10: ...rceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any [[sound]] would be heard - music ref...
14: ...mathematical proportions in sound - be it sung or played on instruments. The polyphonic organization o...
19: ...ch, ''hudba'' is instrumental music and only by implication vocal music. Some languages in West Africa... - Science (19868 bytes)
10: ... than to literally predicting the future. For example, to say, "a paleontologist may make predictions ...
15: ... accumulation of facts, as the empiricist model implies.
21: ...er-intuitive]]. [[Atomic theory]], for example, implies that a granite boulder which appears a heavy, ...
28: ...deas that allows a scientist to explain why the apple fell and make predictions about other falling ob...
30: ...ome day be supplanted. Younger theories such as [[string theory]] may provide promising ideas, but have ye... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...cal piece of wood, doubled over onto itself, and split into several sections so it can be disassembled...
6: ...the modern instrument,frequently constructed of maple, with thick walls to allow finger-holes to be dr...
10: ...knowledge made possible great improvements in the playability of the instrument. A Dutch painting, "De...
16: ...he desired tuning. <!--The bocal, made of ... and plated with ... and must be carefully matched to the...
18: ...istance between the widely-spaced holes with a complex system of keywork, which extends throughout nea... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
4: ...f some student instruments, composite material or plastic [[resin]]. The instrument uses a single [[re...
6: A person who plays the clarinet is called a [[clarinetist]].
11: ... there are few restrictions to what it is able to play.
20: ... (music)|reed]] which is held in the mouth by the player. Vibrating the reed produces the instrument's...
22: The body is equipped with a complicated set of seven tone holes (six front, one bac... - Contrabassoon (3761 bytes)
5: ... support is sometimes given by a strap around the player's neck. A wider hand position is also require...
6: ...There is considerably more air volume required in playing, and the instrument does not respond as quic...
8: *The instrument comes in one piece (plus [[bocal]]); it does not disassemble.
11: ...nd small ensemble situations, the sound can be completely obscured in the volume of the full orchestra...
14: ...ras use one contrabassoonist, either as a primary player or a bassoonist who doubles, as do a large nu... - Musical instrument (3823 bytes)
1: ...ed with the purpose of making [[music]]. In principle, anything that produces [[sound]], and can someh...
11: ...tension of each string and the point at which the string is excited; the [[timbre|tone quality]] varies wi...
17: ... vibrating strings either hammered ([[piano]]) or plucked ([[harpsichord]]), by electronic means ([[sy... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
3: ...gs, as a '''mouth organ''', '''french harp''', simply '''harp''', or
4: "'''Mississippi saxophone'''"), having multiple, variably-tuned [[brass]]
24: The harmonica consists of a "comb" made of wood, plastic or metal which
25: creates the holes into which a player blows or draws to make distinct
26: ...e comb. Over the reedplates, there is a metal or plastic cover which projects the sound out of the op... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: ...lus a [[pedalboard]]. Three, four or five manuals plus pedals is not uncommon for a larger instrument.
11: ...If you update the text of the heading in any way, please update the link too.-->
15: ...pularity at particular times and places, for example the [[baroque organ]], the [[English romantic or...
17: ...]], whose construction started in 1969 and was completed in 1979, is a baroque style organ.
29: ...of Humility'', Siena 1433, the angel on the right plays a ''portatif'' with a hand-pumped bellows]] - Aeolian harp (2264 bytes)
3: ...) and all be tuned to the same note, or identical strings can be tuned to different notes.
5: ...rom a barely audible hum to a loud scream. If the strings are tuned to different notes, sometimes only one...
7: ...ad is slightly less than that behind, pushing the string further to the side, until the restoring force ar...
9: ... in the anchor line of a ship in a river, for example. - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ... in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the [[guitar]]. In the early [[20th ...
3: ...he normal low-to high course of strings. The GCEA strings of the raj㯠are the source of the re-entrant t...
11: ...s very popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a little brig...
13: ...ring an octave lower, so it's pitched below the C-string, where you might expect it. Some historians say s...
15: ...d to jocularly as "My dog has fleas", because the strings sounded in order are the same as the phrase in t... - Banjo (6143 bytes)
2: [[Image:BanjTony.JPG|right|200px|Musician playing the banjo]]
4: ...ringed instrument]], derived from the "banjar", a stringed instrument of [[Caribbean]] origins, sometimes ...
6: ...ted right hand, although there are many different playing styles.
8: ...on the tuning head with the others, and route the string through a tube in the neck where it exits near th...
10: ...n]] and gut used on simple fretless banjos and by players of the classical banjo style. The two most c... - Appalachian dulcimer (3259 bytes)
3: ...courting dulcimer has two fretboards allowing two players to closely sit across from each other to per...
5: ...ng with the other. In practice, a wide variety of playing styles are used.
7: ...The Appalachian dulcimer is both easy to learn to play and
8: yet capable of complexity, providing scope for a wide range of profess...
10: ...hromatic dulcimers" are sometimes made, to permit play in minor keys, but some consider that, properly... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...characteristic [[triangle|triangular]] body and 3 strings (or sometimes 6, in pairs).
14: ...rument is the prima, tuned E-E-A (the two lower [[string]]s being [[tune]]d to the same pitch).
16: ...nylon]]) [[string]]s on the lower pegs and a wire string on the top peg.
18: ...n the larger sizes. One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it is considered rather [[heterodox]] ...
20: ...e contrabass' strings, it is not uncommon for the plectrum to be made of a leather [[shoe]] or [[boot]... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ...se musical bows, and very similar instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa. The Berimbau...
4: A sample of an unaccompanied berimbau: [[Image:Sound-icon...
9: ...the lower portion of the Verga by a loop of tough string, typically a hard shoe lace, acts as a resonator.
11: ... and placing the little finger under the caba硧s string loop, and balancing the weight there. A small sto...
15: *Arame: Steel string.
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