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Bows and instruments
Bows for particular instruments are often designated as such: " violin bow ", " cello bow ", and so on.

Bows and such
Bows and crossbows could shoot over obstacles by firing with high-arcing ballistic trajectories in order to reach the enemy when the person or object had some frontal but no overhead cover ( such as when troops are in melee with the enemy ) — albeit with much less accuracy.
Bows of traditional materials with significant reflex are almost all composite bows, made of the classic three layers of horn, wood, and sinew ; they are a variant of the recurve form normally used for such bows.
Bows of apology are frequently performed at press conferences by high-ranking members of a company that has performed some misdeed, such as producing faulty parts that resulted in a death.
Bows made from weaker woods such as birch or cherry benefit more from a rawhide backing.

Bows and violin
Bows for other members of the violin family typically have a wider ribbon, using more hairs.

Bows and have
Bows and arrows have been present in Egyptian culture since its predynastic origins.

Bows and at
Bows were used in the opening stages of land battles, and at sea, but tended to be considered less " honourable " than a hand weapon.
Trailer Park opened off-Broadway at Bows at Dodger Stages on September 27, 2005, and starred Marya Grandy ( Lin ), Linda Hart ( Betty ), Shuler Hensley ( Norbert ), Kaitlin Hopkins ( Jeanne ), Leslie Kritzer ( Pickles ), Orfeh ( Pippi ), and Wayne Wilcox ( Duke ).
Bows and arrows were deadly at short range and in a fight on horseback or on foot but were ineffective against a well entrenched or fortified enemy.
* 1949: Nathaniel Fein of New York Herald-Tribune, for his photo, The Babe Bows Out, of Babe Ruth at his number retirement by the Yankees.
In the early 1990s, a girls ' camp was formed at nearby Bows Lake.
As Bob Bows observes in his review of the 2008 Germinal Stage Denver production, whereas at first " ' The Birthday Party ' appears to be a straightforward story of a former working pianist now holed up in a decrepit boarding house ," in this play as in his other plays, " behind the surface symbolism ... in the silence between the characters and their words, Pinter opens the door to another world, cogent and familiar: the part we hide from ourselves "; ultimately, " Whether we take Goldberg and McCann to be the devil and his agent or simply their earthly emissaries, the puppeteers of the church-state apparatus, or some variation thereof, Pinter's metaphor of a bizarre party bookended by birth and death is a compelling take on this blink-of-an-eye we call life.

Bows and .
Bows eventually replaced the spear-thrower as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent except Australia, though spear-throwers persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico ( where the Nahuatl word for " spear-thrower " is atlatl ) and amongst the Inuit.
Bows could be kept and ready to shoot for some time with little effort, allowing crossbowmen to aim better.
* " Elvis Bows, Bing Just Nods: High and Low Culture in Fancy Meeting You Here " by Gilbert L. Gigliotti
Bows can be had with a variety of cams, in a full spectrum from soft to hard.
* Bows Corners – A location southwest of York hamlet.
Bows do not really consume anything the way an arquebus consumes gunpowder.
Bows sometimes lose their correct camber ( see above ), and are recambered using the same heating method as is used in the original manufacture.
Bows were about long when unbraced, similar in size to the famous English longbow.
Excavations in El Mina revealed skeletal remains of ancient wolves, eels, and gazelles, part of the ancient southern port quay, grinding mills, different types of columns, wheels, Bows, and a necropolis from the end of the Hellenistic period.
Bows are unaffected by the triangle, can attack from a distance, and do higher amounts of damage against flying units like pegasi, but this is offset by the bow-wielder's inability to counter-attack melee strikes.
Bows usually taper from the handle to the tips.
Their official residence today is the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, home also to the Itazipco ( No Bows ), the Minneconjou ( People Who Live Near Water ) and Oohenumpa ( Two Kettle ), all bands of the Lakota.
She also presented her own series entitled Strings, Bows, and Bellows for BBC Television.
: These are found on LEIs, Bows and some foils.
Bows are the traditional greeting in East Asia, particularly in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam.
Bows can be generally divided into three main types: informal, formal, and very formal.
Bows are a required and expected part of any apology or expression of thanks in East Asia, especially Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
Bows of apology tend to be deeper and last longer than other types of bow.

stringed and instruments
The string section is a body of instruments composed of various stringed instruments.
" After a string quartet ," Martin explains, " I do not think there is a satisfactory sound for strings until one has at least three players on each line ... as a rule two stringed instruments together create a slight " beat " which does not give a smooth sound.
Bronze is also used for the windings of steel and nylon strings of various stringed instruments such as the double bass, piano, harpsichord, and the guitar ..
While tuning mechanisms generally differ from the higher-pitched orchestral stringed instruments, some basses have non-functional, ornamental tuning pegs projecting from the side of the pegbox, in imitation of the tuning pegs on a cello or violin.
1520 – 1591 ), father of Galileo and the inventor of monody, made use of the method in successfully solving musical problems, firstly, of tuning such as the relationship of pitch to string tension and mass in stringed instruments, and to volume of air in wind instruments ; and secondly to composition, by his various suggestions to composers in his Dialogo della musica antica e moderna ( Florence, 1581 ).
The former Hebrew term refers to some wind instrument, or wind instruments in general, the latter to a stringed instrument, or stringed instruments in general.
He was one of the earliest composers for stringed instruments, and Athanasius Kircher has given one specimen of this class of his works in his Musurgia.
It involves techniques derived from other stringed instruments such as legato playing ' and various harmonics.
Prescriptive attempts to distinguish the glissando from the portamento by limiting the former to the filling in of discrete intermediate pitches on instruments like the piano, harp, and fretted stringed instruments have run up against established usage of instruments like the trombone and timpani.
In ancient and medieval times, stringed instruments such as the harp, lyre and lute were used with psalms and hymns.
Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones ( stringed instruments ) and has its own sub category ( the harps ).
The term " harmonics " originated in physical eigenvalue problems, to mean waves whose frequencies are integer multiples of one another, as are the frequencies of the harmonics on stringed musical instruments, but the term has been generalized beyond its original meaning.
* HarpsichordPhoto, photographs of early stringed keyboard instruments
While tab is most often associated with fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, tab is also used with other instruments such as the organ and harmonica.
When the koto was first imported to Japan, the native word koto was a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments.
Over time the definition of koto could not describe the wide variety of these stringed instruments and so the meanings changed.
Unlike most modern stringed instruments, the lute's fretboard is mounted flush with the top.

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