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- Wagner tuba (1858 bytes)
8: ...nerally uses them for pensive melodic passages at piano to pianissimo dynamics. They can hold their own i... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
9: ...mage:KlavierAccordeon.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|a piano accordion]]
20: ...r organs. People used their knowledge and the standard of the contemporary technology to produce reeds...
28: ...s, one-row, '''diatonic accordions''', and so on. Damian's instruments were much smaller than modern v...
31: ...[[1854]] by [[Anthony Faas]]. It is not in use today.
37: ...States by Count [[Guido Deiro]] who was the first piano accordionist to perform in [[Vaudeville]]. He is ... - Concertina (3686 bytes)
2: ...ends and are distinguished from an [[accordion]] (piano or button) by the direction of their button trave... - Harmonium (4268 bytes)
5: ...urce of home entertainment. It was cheaper than a piano, the tuning was more stable, it was lighter, and ...
7: ...ly fallen out of use, having been replaced by the piano, the pipe organ, and electronic organs. Many harm...
13: .... Its popularity has stayed intact to the present day, and the harmonium remains an important [[musica...
20: ...the largest pioneers of this style is Pandit Tulsidas Borkar of Mumbai. More and more music students a... - Aeolian harp (2264 bytes)
1: ...omantic Era]], but are still being hand-crafted today. Some are now made in the form of monumental met...
14: ...ianist's right hand, over a background of rapid pedaled arpeggios. [http://chopinfiles.com/Opus25-1.h... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
9: *secunda
16: ...nda balalaikas are ideally strung with gut (or, today, usually [[nylon]]) [[string]]s on the lower peg...
32: ...the multiple balalaika sizes and tunings in use today. He arranged many traditional Russian folk song...
37: * the [[gusli]], an autoharp chorded with piano-type keys.
50: * [http://www.bdaa.com/ Balalaika and Domra Association of America... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...o a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the ...
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
130: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
145: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]] - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ..., and ending with the sad note of the [[Black Tuesday]], [[harbinger]] of [[The Great Depression|the G...
3: ...s termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Years" (''ann饳...
5: ...n and lightness were cultivated in [[jazz]] and [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First W...
11: ...er]]s returned to the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] with money in their pockets and a great many ne...
17: ...] had sold 15 million [[Model T]]. In all of Canada, there were only about 300,000 vehicles registere... - Percussion instrument (2859 bytes)
7: The [[piano]], [[timpani]], [[xylophone]], [[marimba]], [[vib...
8: ...requirements. [[Gong]]s can be tuned or untuned – the most familiar type of gong in the west, th... - String instrument (8163 bytes)
10: ...this instrument family; the proclamation that the piano is a percussion instrument has at times served as...
16: ...ngs directly. The most familiar example is the [[piano]], where the keys control the felt hammers by mea...
18: ...sic which asks for the player to reach inside the piano and pluck the strings directly, or to "bow" them ...
21: ...ge:DuplexScaling.jpg|thumb|300px|The strings of a piano]]
22: ...ces a thin, "breathy" sound, emphasizing the [[fundamental frequency]]. - Keyboard instrument (2521 bytes)
1: ...ment]]s. The most common ones are probably the [[piano]] and the [[synthesizer]].
10: * [[Harpsichord]]—may also be called a ''cembalo'' or ''virginal'...
11: * [[Piano]] (also known as [[Pianoforte]])
12: * [[Tangent Piano]] — also known as "Tangentenfl?uot;
13: ... [[Viola organista]] — invented by Leonardo da Vinci, it uses a moving bow to sound the strings - List of musical instruments (9508 bytes)
14: ... the [[vocal cord]]s into [[oscillation]]. The fundamental frequency is controlled by the tension of t...
18: ...c)|organ]]), vibrating strings either hammered ([[piano]]) or plucked ([[harpsichord]]), by electronic me...
22: ...n inscriptions and the [[Bible]], and probably predate recorded history. The human body, generating bo...
162: * [[Hardingfele|Hardanger]]
177: * [[Piano]] - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
3: ...arly [[humanist]]. Petrarch and [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] are considered the fathers of the [[Renaissa...
6: ...om Florence in 1302 (along with [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]) by the [[Black Guelph]]s. Petrarch spent mu...
8: ...ch is credited with creating the concept of the [[Dark Ages]] which was later adopted, and greatly emb...
10: ...refore, April 26th, 1336 is regarded as the "birthday of [[alpinism]]", and Petrarch ('''Petrarca alpi...
12: ...was born in 1366, but died before his second birthday. - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
5: ... rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. |
6: date_of_birth=[[March 3]] [[1847]] |
9: date_of_death=[[August 2]] [[1922]] |
10: ...ck, Nova Scotia|Baddeck]], [[Nova Scotia]], [[Canada]]
12: ...''Alexander Graham Bell''' ([[March 3]] [[1847]]–[[August 2]] [[1922]]) was a [[scientist]], [[i... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
2: ...of the Bath|KCB]]''' ([[February 22]], [[1857]] – [[January 8]], [[1941]]) was a soldier, writer...
7: ...us artist of some talent, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were usually spent on yachting or canoeing expe...
17: ...umbered, the garrison withstood the siege for 217 days, and much of this is attributable to some of th...
31: ...s late marriage to a woman young enough to be his daughter in order to deflect persistent rumours abou...
49: ...aden-Powells had three children - one son and two daughters (who gained the courtesy titles of [[The H... - Lute (15915 bytes)
7: ... — along with the large number of strings — makes lutes tedious if not difficult to tune. ...
27: ...their strings rather than hammering them like a [[piano]], can be seen as technological innovations to ex...
37: The lutes most commonly encountered today are the 8-course tenor lute in ''g''
45: [[Francesco da Milano]],
63: The standard repertoire for [[classical guitar]] includes ma... - Bolero (1795 bytes)
2: The '''bolero''' is a type of [[dance]] and musical form.
6: ...ance: [[Frederic Chopin]] wrote a bolero for solo piano, and [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[Bolero (Ravel)|Boler...
10: In [[Cuba]], the bolero developed into a distinct dance in ''duple'' time which eventually spread to o...
15: ...nced to the slowest rhythms of the latin ballroom dances (the spectrum runs Bolero, [[Rumba]], [[Chach...
17: {{dance-stub}} - Harp (23216 bytes)
12: ...ypt]]. It is mentioned in the [[Bible]] -- [[King David]] was a harpist -- and ancient epics, and even...
14: ...d along the neck to allow for the double-action pedal harp, capable of raising the pitch of a string b...
16: ...hology]], a magical harp is possessed by [[The Dagda]].
22: ==The pedal/concert harp==
24: The '''pedal harp''', or '''concert harp''', is large and tec... - Polka (2768 bytes)
2: ...ype of [[dance]] and [[musical genre|genre]] of [[dance music]]; it originated in the middle of the [[...
4: ...h]] roots); cf. also [[polka-mazurka]]. A related dance is the [[redowa]].
6: ... "[[Slovenian-style polka]]" is fast and features piano, [[accordion]], and is associated with [[Clevelan...
18: * [[Walter Ostanek]], [[Canada]], three-time [[Grammy Award]] winner -- Sloven...
24: * Those Darn Accordions - Antalya (20816 bytes)
5: ... the title of "the capital of Turkish tourism". Today the city of Antalya is reliving a golden age. It...
7: ...l clear waters. The prominent sites accessible by daily tours are [[Side]], [[Perga]], [[Manavgat]] an...
10: ...reek]]: ''Αττάλεια'') which later became Adalia and then Antalya.
14: ...s 30 km to the north of Antalya city. Other finds dating back to Neolithic times and more recent perio...
24: ...guage|Greek]]: ''Αττάλεια''—present day Antalya) to base his powerful naval fleet. When ...
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