In the aforementioned two albums, the group goes from an energetic fusion of upbeat genres ( a representative example of which is the song " Vital Transformation ") to very serene, chamber music-like tunes, such as " A Lotus On Irish Streams ," a composition for acoustic guitar, piano and violin, and " Thousand Island Park ," which drops the violin and incorporates double bass ; or from low-key to extremely busy in a single piece, such as " Open Country Joy.

Baden Powell also composed many fine pieces for guitar, such as Xangô, Simplesmente, Braziliense, Horizon, Abração em Madrid, Tristeza e solidão, Consolação, Samba, Casa Velha, Lotus, Imagem, and Canto de Ossanha.

Between 2007 and 2008, a decade after the pioneering artists first established neurofunk's technical soundscape, the style was enhanced with a series of diverse, forward thinking debut albums set to redefine its concept production with the rough-cut antics of Break The System by Gridlok ( Project 51 / CD / 2007 ); the minimal techno-funk fueled Psycho by Phace ( Subtitles Music / 2007 ); the blending of rhythmic guitar chord progressions on Black Lotus by Mindscape ( Citrus Recordings / 2007 ); the melodic experiments of My Light Year by Telemetrik ( BSE Recordings / 2008 ), the highly conceptual and intensive Nobody's Out There by The Upbeats ( Bad Taste Recordings / 2007 ), and the innovative Black Box singles compilation ( Syndrome Audio Recordings / CD / 2008 ), featuring various artists and highlighting remixes by second and third-wave producers, among the second-wave, Phace and Misanthrop contrasting the rhythmic grit of third-wave producers Chook, Dose & Menace.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

* Lotus ( plant ), various botanical taxa

* Lotus ( American band ), a 2000s instrumental rock band

* Lotus ( Hong Kong band ), a 1960s pop band

* Lotus ( Christina Aguilera album ) ( 2012 ), by Christina Aguilera

* Lotus ( Elisa album ) ( 2003 ), by Elisa

* Lotus ( Santana album ) ( 1974 ), by Santana

* Lotus ( Arashi song ), by Arashi

* Lotus ( Dir En Grey song ), by Dir En Grey

* Lotus ( song ), by R. E. M.

* Lotus ( board game ), a strategy game

She is also mentioned in the Lotus Sutra and often depicted holding a biwa, a traditional Japanese lute, in contrast to Saraswati who holds a stringed instrument known as a veena.

Now a secret society, the White Lotus became an instrument of quasi-national resistance and religious organization.

* Lotus Cars, a British motor vehicle manufacturer

Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk.

Once every Formula car manufacturer began building rear-engined racers, the practicality and intelligent construction of Cooper's single-seaters was overtaken by more sophisticated technology from Lola, Lotus, BRM and Ferrari.

Prior to Idealab, he founded GNP Loudspeakers ( now GNP Audio Video ), an audio equipment manufacturer ; GNP Development Inc., acquired by Lotus Software ; and Knowledge Adventure, an educational software company, later acquired by Cendant.

Chrysler had also commissioned the sports car manufacturer and engineering company Lotus to develop a strict rally version of the Sunbeam.

The kit and sportscar manufacturer Tiger Racing Ltd situated in UK ( 20 years ), unconnected to the ERA voiturettes or Grand Prix cars, currently owns the English Racing Automobiles trade mark and the ERA trademark and produces two vehicles badged as ERAs: a two-seater sports car called the ERA 30 which is very similar in appearance to the Lotus 23 and Lotus 30, and a single-seater called the ERA HSS.

Parnelli secured the services of ex-Team Lotus designer Maurice Philippe and driver Mario Andretti for USAC racing in the early 1970s, and in 1974 decided to move into Formula One racing, with financial support from tire manufacturer Firestone.

* Höckmayr KFZ-Technik, German car manufacturer of Lotus 7 clone using Audi turbo engines

Recognizing the value of the new Cosworth DFV, after a Lotus win at Zandvoort in its debut in 1967, with financial help from Elf, Dunlop, and Ford, Tyrrell achieved his dream of moving to Formula 1 in 1968, as team principal for Matra International, a joint-venture established between Tyrrell's own team and the French auto manufacturer Matra.

He founded GNP Loudspeakers ( now GNP Audio Video ), an audio equipment manufacturer ; GNP Development Inc., acquired by Lotus Software ; Knowledge Adventure, an educational software company, later acquired by Cendant ; and the business incubator Idealab in March, 1996, of which he serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.

It was also the last race in which the famous Lotus team would carry the distinctive Black and Gold sponsorship colours of John Player Special, or run the Renault turbo engine, the French manufacturer not supplying their turbocharged engines for F1 after the season.

Together with Parsons and Woolfson, the Project originally consisted of the group Pilot, with Ian Bairnson ( guitar ), David Paton ( bass ) and Stuart Tosh ( drums ).

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

* Adrian Legg ( born 1948 ), English guitar player

The standard tuning for an acoustic guitar is E-A-D-G-B-E ( low to high ), although many players, particularly fingerpickers, use alternate tunings ( scordatura ), such as " open G " ( D-G-D-G-B-D ), " open D " ( D-A-D-F-A-D ), or " drop D " ( D-A-D-G-B-E ).

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Samuel Adler classifies the harp as a plucked string instrument in the same category as the guitar ( acoustic or electric ), mandolin, banjo, or zither.

Holly formed his own band, later to be called The Crickets, consisting of Holly ( lead guitar and vocals ), Niki Sullivan ( guitar ), Joe B. Mauldin ( bass ), and Jerry Allison ( drums ).

He assembled a backing band consisting of Tommy Allsup ( guitar ), Waylon Jennings ( bass ) and Carl Bunch ( drums ), and billed them as The Crickets.

Sometimes the balalaika is tuned " guitar style " by folk musicians to G-B-D ( mimicking the three highest strings of the Russian guitar ), whereby it is easier to play for Russian guitar players, although classically trained balalaika purists avoid this tuning.

But from 1985 until he died, his touring band consisted of Debby Hastings ( bass / musical director ), Frank Daley or Nunzio Signore ( guitar ), Tom Major, Dave Johnson, Yoshi Shimada or Sandy Gennaro ( drums ), and his personal manager, Margo Lewis ( keyboards ).

For the new line-up, Love recruited guitarist Micko Larkin, Shawn Dailey ( bass guitar ), and Stu Fisher ( drums, percussion ).

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

There are many types of electronic amplifiers, commonly used in radio and television transmitters and receivers, high-fidelity (" hi-fi ") stereo equipment, microcomputers and other electronic digital equipment, and guitar and other instrument amplifiers.

The bass guitar ( also called electric bass, or simply bass ; ) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking.

The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds ( as is the double bass ) to avoid excessive ledger lines.

Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section.

The alteration to a " guitar " form made the instrument easier to hold and transport, and the addition of frets enabled bassists to play in tune more easily.

It was actually just an electric guitar with a triangular shape that was based on the original instrument.

The classical guitar ( also called classic guitar, Spanish guitar, nylon-string guitar or concert guitar ) is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones.

The modern full size classical guitar has a scale length of around 650 mm ( 25. 6 inches ), with an overall instrument length of 965 – 1016 mm ( 38-40 inches ).

A clavinet played through an instrument amplifier with guitar effect pedals is often associated with funky, disco-infused 1970s rock.

Stories have been told about the very young Chet who, when a friend or relative would come to visit, and if that person played a guitar, would crowd in and put his ear so very close to the instrument that it became difficult for that person to play.

In jazz and other genres outside of classical music, this instrument is commonly called the upright bass or acoustic bass to distinguish it from the electric bass guitar.

There are many types of electronic amplifiers, commonly used in radio and television transmitters and receivers, high-fidelity (" hi-fi ") stereo equipment, microcomputers and other electronic digital equipment, and guitar and other instrument amplifiers.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.

Electric guitars were originally designed by guitar makers and instrument manufacturers.

Alvino Rey was an artist who took this instrument to a wide audience in a large orchestral setting and later developed the pedal steel guitar for Gibson.

An early proponent of the electric Spanish guitar was jazz guitarist George Barnes who used the instrument in two songs recorded in Chicago on March 1, 1938, " Sweetheart Land " and " It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame ".

Gibson's first production electric guitar, marketed in 1936, was the ES-150 model (" ES " for " Electric Spanish "; and " 150 " reflecting the $ 150 price of the instrument, along with a matching amplifier ).

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.