The body shape of the tambura somewhat resembles that of the sitar, but it has no frets – and the strings are played open.

It is used in Indian music and is played with the tanpura ( or tambura ) and other Indian drone instruments like the ottu, the ektar, the dotara ( or dotar ; dutar in Persian Central Asia ), the surpeti, the surmandal ( or swarmandal ) and the shank ( conch shell ).

A madlem is a cylindrical earthen vessel covered at both ends with the skin of a lizard and is mostly played by the Kunbis, whereas tambura is a stringed instrument like the veena but with only one string is normally used during Hindustani classical concerts.

Before the Western portion of the concerts, there was also the notoriously hard-to-record Indian string instruments of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan to amplify, together with Alla Rakha ’ s tabla and the drone-enhancing tambura played by Kamala Chakravarty − each offering natural musical tones so easily lost in the " cavernous Garden ".

The most recognisable feature of Šokci culture is their music which is played mostly on the tambura instrument.

But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

I played on it my secret songs, unexplained, passionate and peaceful ''.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

He hasn't played too much, because Richards has been working on him furiously in batting practice.

In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

And the authors give numerous instances of calculated guessing on the patient's part to show how large a role it played in his process of readapting himself and how proficient he became at it.

Mr. Phillips had only to signal from his doorway to summon aid from the ubiquitous bilingual children who played on the sidewalks of Mission Street.

He felt very cunning, very proud of himself as he played on the other man's soft spot.

He missed the 1955 season because of an operation on the ailing knee, then played 77 minutes in 1956.

President Kennedy couldn't stay away from his desk for the 75-minute young people's concert played on the White House lawn yesterday by the 85-piece Transylvania Symphony Orchestra from Brevard, N. C..

Mobutu promptly flung out the Russians, who have not since played any significant part on the local scene, although they have redoubled their obstructionist efforts at U.N. headquarters in New York.

The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

The orchestra was obviously on its mettle and it played most responsively.

The concerto's soloist, Hans Richter-Haaser, played with compensatory ease and economy, though without the consummate plasticity to which we had been treated on the previous evening by Herr Riefling.

Just to test himself, he played roulette for quarters on his old combination, five and seventeen, and within an hour, he had won, surprisingly, twenty dollars.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

* Ada ( dog actor ), dog that played Colin on the sitcom Spaced

Alumni played its last game in 1911 and was definitely dissolved on April 24, 1913.

Within the centrally controlled structure of the Soviet system, Kazakhstan played a vital industrial and agricultural role ; the vast coal deposits discovered in Kazakhstani territory in the twentieth century promised to replace the depleted fuel reserves in the European territories of the union.

Within the following six years, Sixx played in the bands 58 and Brides of Destruction, while Lee formed Methods of Mayhem and performed as a solo artist.

Within philosophy it played a crucial role in the development of existentialism, hermeneutics, deconstructionism, postmodernism, and continental philosophy in general.

Within the Soviet occupied zone of Germany, the Social Democrats were pressured into merging with the Communists, on Communist terms, to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands or SED ), and Ulbricht played a key role in this.

The first video played is Rush's " The Enemy Within ".

She usually played the sweet innocent but here she plays the role of a harlot in the play Within the Gates.

Within months of creating a MySpace account in 2005, Belladonna became the most played Italian band on MySpace next to Lacuna Coil.

Within these championships are the Main Tournament, Plate A, Plate B and as many plates as possible until everyone has played as much Fives as they want.

Following the release of the album, the band toured the United States with Devastation and Bleed the Sky in the fall, toured Europe in winter of 2009 with Incite, played a small UK and European festivals during the spring and summer of 2009, and went on a fall 2009 U. S. headlining tour with Cattle Decapitation, Prong, and Mutiny Within.

Later, he played the sneering German in such films as Sylvia of the Secret Service and The Hun Within.

Within a month they played at the Windsor National Jazz and Blues Festival in August 1967 and were quickly signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label.

Isaacs played the leading role of Sir Mark Brydon, the British Ambassador to the US in the BBC Four miniseries The State Within ( 2006 ), for which he was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for the 65th Golden Globe Awards.

Within a fortnight of the start of World War I, Dickinson had drafted schemes for a " League of Nations " and, together with Lord Dickinson and Lord Bryce, he planned the ideas behind of the League of Nations and played a leading role in the founding of the group of internationalist pacifists known as the Bryce Group.

Thelma J. Shinn in her book, Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women described the struggle between Canopus and Shammat, played out on Shikasta, as the " eternal struggle between good and evil ", and the " Degenerative Disease " that strikes Shikasta as a metaphor for the original sin.

Within this first line-up in particular, Clarke played acoustic double bass in addition to electric bass.

Within the CCL, a different but equally important story had played out.

Within a few weeks, the group changed its name to Kiss and played their first concert on January 30, 1973.

He played Luke Gardner in the BBC terrorism drama The State Within, Bishop David Newman on the BBC spy drama Spooks and Robert Hawkins in the CBS post-apocalyptic television drama series Jericho.

Within this organisation he was able to study meteors and asteroids more seriously, and played a central role in the forming of the International Meteor Organisation as the organization formed.

Within the level 1 music of Ghouls ' n Ghosts for the Amiga is a voice sample played backwards saying " secret authority ," considered nothing more than a joke by Follin.

Within two years he was his country's No. 1, and he played in all of his country's matches at the 1986, 1990 and 1998 World Cups, despite stiff competition for the keeper's jersey from Andy Goram during the 1990s.

performed at Twickenham in August 2008, while New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi played two gigs at the stadium in June 2008 as part of their Lost Highway Tour, and Iron Maiden played there as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour on the 5th July 2008, along with a full supporting bill which included Avenged Sevenfold, Within Temptation and Lauren Harris.

he also took the important respnsibility of batting at No. 3. Within couple of years, he graduated to the national team, and played against the touring England ' A ' team in Feb. 1995.