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  1. Trumpet (13239 bytes)
    28: ...g was a guarded craft, its instruction occurring only within highly selective [[guild|guilds]]. The tr...
    50: ... the embouchure (muscles of the face). Some commonly accepted ways to do this are:
    53: ...uthpiece''': playing exercises on the mouthpiece only, without the trumpet. Without the resonating ch...
    291: ...mpet Guild] - a trumpet players' group with many online resources including a frequently-updated diary...
  2. Accordion (10069 bytes)
    13: *Reeds sound only if air flows in one direction
    27: ... It had free reeds, but no keyboard, and sounded only in one direction.
    28: ...cale (music)|scale]], and consequently played in only one key [and its related keys]. Similar accordio...
    54: ...hird to eighth column in the picture above), and only has Fundamental Bass and major chords
    63: ...ts can play intervals of up to two octaves using only one hand, this is especially important for piece...
  3. Concertina (3686 bytes)
  4. Harmonica (21752 bytes)
    9: Unlike most free-reed instruments (such as [[organ (m...
    19: The harmonica is commonly used in [[blues]] and [[folk music]], but
    37: Because they are only designed to be played in a single key at a time,
    49: ...re are 3 octaves between 1 and 10 blow, there is only one full major scale available on the harmonica,...
    165: The bass harmonica has only blow notes.
  5. Harmonium (4268 bytes)
    13: ...ic of India|Indian music]], as well as being commonly found in Indian homes.
    15: ...t least one harmonium. The harmonium is also commonly accomponied by the [[tabla]]. To sikhs the harmo...
  6. Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
    5: ...s range in size from portable instruments having only a few dozen pipes to grand organs having tens of...
    7: Pipe organs are most commonly found in [[church]]es, and in some [[Reform Juda...
    35: ...d secular music, in a variety of settings--since unlike other organs, they were easily moved.
    63: Because a pipe produces only one pitch at a time, ideally there is at least o...
    71: ...sic)|mixture]]'', and the number of ranks is commonly indicated by a roman numeral following the stop ...
  7. Aeolian harp (2264 bytes)
    5: ... strings are tuned to different notes, sometimes only one tone is heard and sometimes [[chord (music)|...
  8. Banjo (6143 bytes)
    10: ...s today are fretted. Banjo strings are most commonly metal, although [[nylon]] and gut used on simple...
    18: ...GBd. In earlier times, the tuning gCGBd was commonly used instead. Other tunings common in old-time ...
    22: ...a single one held between thumb and forefinger), unlike the five-string banjo, which is almost always ...
  9. Berimbau (11944 bytes)
    36: ...rgrown to 5 feet and more, so the players rely mainly on the change in timbre, and tuning options are ...
    38: ...sounds may appear in a berimbau performance, but only these define capoeira's rythmic patterns (except...
    58: ...and despise this uniform playing which they want only of beginners, while they stress that variation m...
    62: ...rimbaus may be tuned on the same tone, differing only in timbre. Some set the low note of the M餩o so...
    74: ...ied by the rest of the instruments. When played, only competent Capoeiristas may play in the Roda. For...
  10. Bouzouki (4321 bytes)
    2: ...front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with [[mother-of-pearl]]. The instrument is pl...
    19: ... in Rembetiko music - a sort of urban blues in mainland Greece. They belong to a tradition of long nec...
    29: ...ses, so they got rid of the octave strings which only confuse things and replaced them with pairs tune...
  11. Printing press (12986 bytes)
    12: Previously, books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or (from the [[13th century]...
    14: ...ks was not received with unanimous encomium. Not only did the [[Roman Curia|papal court]] contemplate ...
    16: ...d that this incredibly rapid expansion shows not only a higher level of industry (fueled by the high-q...
    23: Gutenberg's findings not only allowed a much broader audience to read [[Martin...
    29: ...[author]]ship became more meaningful. It was suddenly important who had said or written what, and what...
  12. Alexandria (28378 bytes)
    3: ... civilization|Hellenistic]] world — second only to [[Rome]] in size and wealth throughout much o...
    23: ...e silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptian townlet, Rhacotis, already stood on the shore and was a...
    27: ...age]]; and for some centuries more it was second only to [[Rome]]. Nominally a free Greek city, Alexa...
    29: It was not only a center of [[Hellenism]], but was also the grea...
    44: ...s, the Soma and Museum, fallen to ruin. On the mainland, life seems to have centred in the vicinity of...
  13. Earth (30908 bytes)
    7: ...olar system]]'s [[terrestrial planet]]s, and the only planetary body that [[modern science]] confirms ...
    14: ...Earth (the summit of [[Mount Everest]], which is only 8,850 m) and the lowest (the bottom of the [[Mar...
    55: ...he heat flow from the interior to the surface is only 1/20,000 as great as the energy received from th...
    68: ...Since the average density of surface material is only around 3000 kg/m<sup>3</sup>, we must conclude t...
    80: ...geodyn/poster2.html]. Thus, the upper mantle can only flow very slowly.
  14. Volcano (27295 bytes)
    47: ...nct volcanoes are those that scientists consider unlikely to erupt again. Whether a volcano is truly e...
    109: ...noes. For example, [[Mount St. Helens]] is found inland from the margin between the oceanic [[Juan de ...
    126: ...face expression. The large majority of these are only known about at surface because of earthquakes as...
  15. United States (58223 bytes)
    66: ...oviet Union]], was considered one of the world's only two "[[superpower]]s". With the [[collapse of th...
    84: ...e appealed from a state court to a federal court only if there is a federal question, the [[State supr...
    90: ...nty|counties]] have little or no power, existing only as geographic distinctions. In other areas, coun...
    115: ...er 48; [[Alaska]], which is physically connected only to Canada, and the [[archipelago]] of Hawaii in ...
    123: ...es government claims a lease to this land, which only mutual agreement or United States abandonment of...
  16. Feed (1445 bytes)
  17. Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
    62: Muzorewa, who not only had the support of Smith but with the white-mino...
    110: ...ican countries. The political situation makes it unlikely that the West will be inclined to do much mo...
    150: *[http://www.gta.gov.zw/ Zimbabwe Government Online] official government site and [http://www.zim....
    155: * [http://www.africaonline.co.zw/mirror/ The Sunday Mirror] weekly newspa...
    162: ...an.co.uk/zimbabwe/0,2759,181131,00.html Guardian Unlimited - ''Special Report: Zimbabwe'']
  18. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    64: ...ch includes the mainland of Great Britain, the mainland of [[Ireland]], and the smaller islands associ...
    91: ...use of Commons|House of Commons]], the lower and only directly elected house in Britain's [[bicameral]...
    93: ...he Commons with a small number chosen from the mainly appointed upper house, the [[British House of Lo...
    97: ...e modern United Kingdom, the monarch's role is mainly, though not exclusively, ceremonial. Her Majesty...
    109: ...ary peers]] who could sit in the upper chamber - only 92 out of several hundred retain the right, by e...
  19. Spain (36498 bytes)
    58: ...have included the [[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the pre...
    85: ... (see [[War of the Spanish Succession]]). It was only after this war ended and a new dynasty was insta...
    116: ...s with the ETA with no political concessions and only if it gives up all its weapons. PSOE, CiU, ERC, ...
    118: ... constitution, making Spain the first and so far only country to approve the constitution via referend...
    161: Mainland Spain is dominated by high plateaus and mounta...
  20. Mummy (16225 bytes)
    25: ...ere given the task to preserve the deceased. Not only did their job require knowledge of human anatomy...
    31: ...ll incision on the left side of the [[abdomen]]. Only the [[heart]] was left in place. The organs whic...
    57: ...[Japan]]''', see external link ''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed...
    58: ...onor for people who reached a highest level of [[enlightenment]].
    77: ...ement called Qilakitsoq, in Greenland. The "[[Greenland Mummies]]" consisted of a six-month old baby, ...

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