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- Wagner tuba (1858 bytes)
2: ...on [[brass instrument]] that resembles both the [[French horn]] and the [[tuba]]. It was originally cr...
6: ...er than written. The bass tuba's written range is from the F a twelfth below middle C to the D a ninth...
8: ...nerally uses them for pensive melodic passages at piano to pianissimo dynamics. They can hold their own i... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
2: ...ion''' is a small portable [[free reed instrument|free-reed wind instrument]] with a [[musical keyboar...
9: ...mage:KlavierAccordeon.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|a piano accordion]]
10: ...etal ribbon, a reed, which is held at one end and free at the other, like a ruler on the edge of a tab...
12: Modern free-reed instruments have several aspects in common...
14: *Metal frame and metal tongue - Concertina (3686 bytes)
2: ...ends and are distinguished from an [[accordion]] (piano or button) by the direction of their button trave...
9: ...tina.jpg|left|thumb|Anglo concertina mad by C. Jeffries around 1910. Note three rows of buttons.]]
10: ...eenth and early twentieth centuries include C. Jeffries (who built primarily Anglo-style concertinas) ...
13: ...gers on metal finger rests, leaving three fingers free for noting. - 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7: ...ly fallen out of use, having been replaced by the piano, the pipe organ, and electronic organs.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...
22: ... internal reservoir bellows inside the harmonium from which air escapes to vibrate the reeds. This is... - Aeolian harp (2264 bytes)
5: ... the wind passing over the strings, and can range from a barely audible hum to a loud scream. If the s...
7: ...er to the side, until the restoring force arising from deflection halts and reverses the motion.
14: ... ''Sound file of a performance, with sheet music, from ChopinFiles.com''] - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
18: ...ique is the use of the [[left]]-hand [[thumb]] to fret notes on the bottom string, particularly on the...
24: ...om [[Central Asia]], from whence several kinds of fretted long-necked [[chordophone]]s stem, including...
26: ... Asian instruments described above. Similarly, [[fret]]s on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gu...
28: ...particularly with the ''[[skomorokh]]s'', sort of free-lance musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed...
30: ...l, is quite difficult to reconcile when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russi... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
130: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]] - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...ng with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [[Great War]] and emergence of a new a...
3: ... this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Y...
5: ...ge parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in [[arch...
8: ...es|economy of the USA]], took sometime to convert from [[War economy|a wartime economy]] to a peacetim...
19: ...f-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audience in any and every way. ... - Percussion instrument (2859 bytes)
7: The [[piano]], [[timpani]], [[xylophone]], [[marimba]], [[vib... - 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: ...n, "breathy" sound, emphasizing the [[fundamental frequency]]. - Keyboard instrument (2521 bytes)
1: ...ment]]s. The most common ones are probably the [[piano]] and the [[synthesizer]].
11: * [[Piano]] (also known as [[Pianoforte]])
12: * [[Tangent Piano]] — also known as "Tangentenfl?uot;
29: * [[Electric piano]]
30: ...[Rhodes piano]] also known as a ''Fender-Rhodes'' piano - List of musical instruments (9508 bytes)
8: ...lumn of air is made to vibrate inside them. The [[frequency]] of the wave generated is related to the ...
12: ...string is plucked, strummed, slapped, etc. The [[frequency]] of the wave generated (and therefore the...
14: ...cal cord]]s into [[oscillation]]. The fundamental frequency is controlled by the tension of the vocal ...
18: ...c)|organ]]), vibrating strings either hammered ([[piano]]) or plucked ([[harpsichord]]), by electronic me...
75: (not necessarily made from brass) - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
1: ...ycle of Famous Men and Women.'' c. 1450. Detached fresco. 247 x 153 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florenc...
3: '''Francesco Petrarca''' or '''Petrarch''' ([[July 20]]...
6: ...ence]]. His father, Ser Petracco, had been exiled from Florence in 1302 (along with [[Dante Alighieri|...
8: ...h their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their an...
10: ...ed considerably later as a letter to his friend [[Francesco Dionigi]]. At the time, it was unusual to ... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
15: ... out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend.
19: ...year he spent at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. From [[1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instructor at S...
21: ...interest in communication machines. He designed a piano which could transmit its music to a distance by m...
23: ...ical notes, but articulate speech. With financing from his American father-in-law, on [[March 7]], [[1...
27: ...e]] bestowed on him the [[Volta Prize]] of 50,000 francs, the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in London awar... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
5: ...eometry]] at [[Oxford]]. In the family and to his friends he was known as Stephe (rhymes with Livy). H...
7: ...h were strictly out-of-bounds. He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist of some ta...
11: ...dia]]. In [[1895]] he held special service in [[Africa]] and returned to India in [[1897]] to command...
13: ...oon transferred to the British secret service. He frequently travelled disguised as a butterfly collec...
15: ...ful campaign in [[Ashanti Confederacy|Ashanti]], Africa, and at the age of 40 was promoted to lead the... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...ud]]. The words 'lute' and 'oud' are both derived from [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''al‘ud'', "th...
7: ...wood, somewhat tapered, that are held in place by friction in holes through the ''peg box''. (There ar...
9: ... be replaced frequently. A few additional partial frets of wood are usually glued to the body of the i...
11: .... The courses are numbered sequentially, counting from the highest pitched, so that the ''chantrelle''...
15: ...s. (Some modern players use a simple loop of yarn from the tuning head around the player's neck and ba... - Bolero (1795 bytes)
6: ...ance: [[Frederic Chopin]] wrote a bolero for solo piano, and [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[Bolero (Ravel)|Boler...
20: [[fr:Bol鲯]] - Harp (23216 bytes)
2: ...and [[strings (music)|strings]]. Some, known as ''frame harps'', also have a forepillar; those lacking...
4: Harps are found in [[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[North]] and [[South America]]...
8: ...rp and modern concert harp. ''Public domain image from Websters Dictionary 1911.'' <small>([[Media:Har...
12: ... The oldest documented references to the harp are from [[30th century BC|3000 BC]] in [[Mesopotamia]] ...
24: ...(1.2 m) wide at the widest point. The notes range from three octaves below middle C to three and a hal... - Polka (2768 bytes)
6: ...[[alternative rock|alternative]] polka" or "[[San Francisco]]-style".
9: ...''California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collection''; performed by John Se...
22: * [[Frankie Yankovic]] -- Slovenian-American
25: * Polkacide -- alternative/punk/San Francisco - Antalya (20816 bytes)
7: ...mpos]], [[Adrasan]] and [[Kekova]] can be reached from the sea by Blue voyagers.
16: Records from the [[Hittite]] period (when the first recorded...
22: ...had entered the sovereignty of [[Lydia]]n Kingdom from 7th century BC. The reign of the kingdom of Lyd...
24: ...talya had reached beyond the city walls. Starting from 7th century, the Muslim Arabs had started to be...
31: ...y a wall and the gates of the walls are closed on Friday nights. The Greeks live in a different neighb...
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