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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
18: ...a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound.
20: ... somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a bagpipe.
47: ...round''' movement (Gaelic '''urlar''') which is a simple theme, then a series of somewhat minimalist varia...
50: ... for practice in settings where a great volume of sound would be inappropriate or unappreciated. Another ...
56: ...with the Uilleann pipes of being able to stop the sound of the chanter. This is done by giving the chant... - Ear (6659 bytes)
3: ...esponsible for collection and early processing of sound (the beginning of the [[auditory system]]), or me...
10: ...essure]] [[wave]]s move into the [[ear canal]], a simple tube running to the [[middle ear]]. This tube am...
17: ...om bones of the jaw, and allow finer detection of sound.
21: ...onse to loud sounds, reducing the transmission of sound to the inner ear. This is called the [[acoustic ...
28: ...h [[endolymph]], a fluid medium that receives the sound vibrations transmitted from the air to the oval w... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
3: ...n through arrangement and juxtaposition or by the simple designation of an object or even an act as sculpt...
57: * [[Sound sculpture|sound]] - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...time for a regular [[crystal]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted...
125: ...PVB interlayer also gives the glass a much higher sound insulation rating, due to the damping effect, and... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
14: ...nd and meaning ideographically, kana express only sound without regard to meaning. Three types of kana ha...
130: ...mmonly used script for everyday use is [[Riq'a]]. Simple and easy to write, its movements are small, witho... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
51: ==Sounds==
52: ...nt among scholars as to the general nature of the sounds that the letters represented. See W. Sidney Alle...
269: ...are ''not'' used, a formal or official speech may sound equally awkward if sandhi rules ''are'' used.
271: ===Historical sound changes===
272: ...merous [[diphthongs]]. This has been reduced to a simple five-vowel system. Most noticeably, the vowels i,... - Flute (11293 bytes)
1: ...like other wind instruments, a flute produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge, instead of ...
3: Flute sounds are typically open and hollow as a result of rel...
7: ... can be attributed to its simplicity and pleasing sound. A flute made from a [[mammoth]] bone, found in t...
9: ...as flutes, even though the physics, technique and sound are similar.
14: ...pe may be either open or closed, depending on the sound desired. - Recorder (12954 bytes)
5: ... used for about the last time as an other-worldly sound by [[Gluck]] in his opera ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]...
13: ...rder its characteristic woody and somewhat uneven sound.
24: ...derivative of historical fingering, it requires a simple forked fingering for the fourth scale degree in t...
34: ...ransition from recorder to a modern woodwind much simpler for a schoolchild. - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
9: ... (doing so results in a definitely saxophone-like sound). Sax worked in his father's workshop for many ye...
16: With a simple fingering system, the modern saxophone is commonl...
20: ...re brass. These are typically designed to enhance sound quality and/or give the saxophone an interesting ...
23: ...at the material has little, if any, effect on the sound, and that the physical dimensions give a mouthpie...
25: ...ather large chamber, giving a darker, more stable sound. Many classical players play on rubber mouthpiec... - Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
8: ...akuhachi means "1.8 foot", from its size. It is a simple compound of two japanese words:
48: The ''sound'' of the shakuhachi is also featured in western g... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: Simple metal or wood reed instruments ("Maultrommel", Je...
10: ... hole in the holder, the reed vibrates, producing sound.
13: *Reeds sound only if air flows in one direction
15: *Activation of sound through air ([[Bernoulli effect]])
22: ...)|sheng]] uses resonator pipes, and the reeds can sound in both directions, which is more similar to a cl... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
7: interrupting an airstream to produce [[sound]].
26: ...re is a metal or plastic cover which projects the sound out of the open back. Chromatic harmonicas also ...
170: ...This gives the harmonica a more powerful and rich sound.
174: ... interesting warbling tonal variation on the very simple waveform of the basic ten- or twelve-hole diatoni...
195: ...harmonicas include tiny four-hole instruments and simple plastic models of a conventional size. - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
4: A sample of an unaccompanied berimbau: [[Image:Sound-icon.png|30px]] [[media:Toque-de-angola.ogg|Toque...
11: ... and forth from the abdomen, producing a wah-like sound.
16: ...of the Berimbau, used to amplify and resonate the sound.
18: ...all stick struck against the arame to produce the sound.
26: These categories relate to sound, not to size. The berimbau's quality does not dep... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
94: ...hical and climatological evidence to support this simple observation. However, his ideas were not taken se...
135: ...ions are still valid. The reasons, however, today sound much like pre-Copernican astronomy.
143: ...ogy, but the underlying concept is as radical and simple as "The Earth moves" was in astronomy. - Sun (20830 bytes)
140: ...] of stars, and [[helioseismology]], the study of sound waves that travel through the Sun's interior.
168: ...s the only part of the Sun cool enough to support simple molecules such as [[carbon monoxide]] and [[water...
266: ...http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html Solar Sounds] from [http://www.stanford.edu Stanford] - Writing (6476 bytes)
20: ...ries are best suited to languages with relatively simple syllable structure, such as Japanese. Other langu... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
56: ...yllable but where characters representing related sounds are similar graphically (typically, a common con...
58: ...ries are best suited to languages with relatively simple syllable structure, such as Japanese. The [[Engli...
79: ...hat they only have characters for [[consonant]]al sounds. Vowels are not usually marked in abjad.
108: ...g, will be represented the same way for different sounds. The most prominent featural writing system is [... - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ... instrument will have some way of controlling the sound, such as by adjusting the [[pitch (music)|pitch]]...
3: ...imes called [[sound effect]]s; the border between sound effects and actual musical instruments is often h...
14: ...1917, which used a vacuum tube oscillator to make sounds that depended on the interactions of the user wi...
16: ...re not configurable to produce a range of complex sounds by additive or subtractive synthesis, instead ge...
20: ...he benchmark for the "electric organ" sound. This sound can be simulated by many modern synthesizers and ... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
24: ...produced soon after by [[Alexander Graham Bell]]. Sound quality was still low, and replays were limited b...
66: ...in penny arcades, where people could watch short, simple films. This was especially important to Thomas Ed... - Metronome (3057 bytes)
8: ...mechanics inside the metronome produce a clicking sound on each swing of the rod.
10: ...Dr. Beat", manufactured by Boss. In addition to a simple pulse, this metronome can play [[polyrhythm]]s an...
12: ...ure, and then there is a special metallic "ching" sound to mark off the beginning of each new [[measure]]...
14: ...s per measure are chosen, then the metronome will sound like so:
21: ... making the "ching" click sound metallic, make it sound like a regular "tick" except one [[octave]] highe...
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