A clavicytherium is a harpsichord with the soundboard and strings mounted vertically facing the player, the same space-saving principle as an upright piano.

The Barons rehearsed for hours in the garage of Berry's parents ' home at 1111 Linda Flora Drive, Bel Air, where Berry's father provided an upright piano and two two-track Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorders.

Music theatre work for soprano, tenor, 2 female speakers, 8 amplified mixed voices, amplified orchestra ( 15 winds, 13 brass, harp, 2 electric guitars, 2 pianos + electric piano, off-stage upright piano, celesta, 2 synthesizers, 6 percussion, minimum 9 strings, bass guitar.

The mechanical action structure of the upright piano was invented in London, England in 1826 by Robert Wornum, and upright models became the most popular model, also amplifying the sound.

They were small by today's standards and were about the size of an upright piano.

They were able to get away with innuendo that would have been unheard of a mere ten years before — in one episode, Sandy refers to Julian and his skill at the piano as: " a miracle of dexterity at the cottage upright "; innocuous in itself, unless one knows that a ' cottage ' was the polari term for a public toilet where men met for anonymous sexual encounters and ' upright ' referred to an erection.

Steinway's factory in New York City produces six models of grand piano and three models of upright piano.

Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany, produces seven models of grand piano and two models of upright piano.

* The world's most expensive upright piano was built by Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany, in 1970.

Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano ( four-or five-octave ) or of a large wooden music box ( three-octave ).

An upright piano ( left ) and celesta ( right ) compared

During the Brain Salad Surgery tour of 1974 ( one show of which was documented on the 3-LP set, Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ), Emerson's keyboard setup included the Hammond C-3 organ, run through multiple Leslie speakers driven by HiWatt guitar amplifiers, the Moog 3C modular synthesiser ( modified by addition of various modules and an oscilloscope ) with ribbon controller, a Steinway concert grand piano with a Moog Minimoog synthesiser on top of it ( used for the steel drum part on Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression ), an upright acoustic-electric piano that was used for honky-tonk piano sounds, a Hohner Clavinet and another Moog Minimoog synthesiser.

The only pieces in the general repertoire to feature the Luthéal are L ' Enfant et les Sortilèges ( 1920 – 5 ) and Tzigane ( 1924 ) by Maurice Ravel, performances of which tend to substitute an upright piano, either prepared with paper or straight.

The film featured reverse film effects, stop motion animation, jump-cuts from daytime to night-time, and The Beatles playing and later pouring paint over an upright piano.

The quartet was first performed in January 1941 to an audience of prisoners and prison guards, with the composer playing a poorly maintained upright piano in freezing conditions.

This came in both a standard grand piano shape as well as an upright grand piano case.

Diamond was back to writing songs on an upright piano above the Birdland Club in New York City.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

The sound and tone of the plucked upright bass is distinct from that of the fretted bass guitar.

The upright bass produces a different sound than the bass guitar, because its strings are not stopped by metal frets, instead having a continuous tonal range on the uninterrupted fingerboard.

As well, bass guitars usually have a solid wood body, which means that their sound is produced by electronic amplification of the vibration of the strings, instead of the upright bass's acoustic reverberation.

Many musicians feel the slower attack and percussive, woody tone of the upright bass gives it a more " earthy " or " natural " sound than an electric bass, particularly when gut strings are used.

Some popular bands decided to anchor their sound with an upright bass instead of an electric bass.

Sousa wanted a tuba that would send sound upward and over the band with a full warm tone, much like a concert ( upright ) tuba, an effect which could not be achieved with the more directional hélicon bell position.

Hold in this position approximately 8 seconds ( you may hear a clicking sound during this time ), then return the clock to its normal upright position.

The popular Rickenbacker 4001 and 4003 model electric bass guitars also have adjustable string mutes integrated into their bridge / tailpiece assemblies, which can be used to give the instrument a more percussive sound or to simulate the shorter sustain of an upright bass.

At that juncture, Morrison decided to try an acoustic sound, and he and Kielbania began performing shows in coffee houses in the Boston area as an acoustic duo with Morrison playing guitar and Kielbania on upright bass.

A portion of the sound board of a Vose & Sons upright piano

The eye is open on hatching and the chick can sit upright and make a weak sound.

The igil is held nearly upright when played, with the sound box of the instrument in the performer's lap, or braced against the top of the performer's boot.

Microphones used for sound reinforcement are positioned and mounted in many ways, including base-weighted upright stands, podium mounts, tie-clips, instrument mounts, and headset mounts.

Organists who play the bassline on the lower manual may do short taps on the bass pedals – often on the tonic of a tune's key and in the lowest register of the pedalboard – to simulate the low, resonant sound of a plucked upright bass string.

The upright bass, normally in the solid " stick " variation ( enabling much higher volume without feedback ), is still widely favored by bass players in salsa and timba bands, because its sound is so well suited to those musical styles.

Besides using his grand piano as usual, Mercury overdubbed the song with an upright ( credited as " jangle piano "), to give the track a vaudeville sound.

Don Peris took up percussional duties on " Birdless " and the closing moments of his self-penned " Green Grass, Red Tree ," but otherwise the group adapted to its new trio status by replacing Mike Bitt's electric bass with an upright bass and taking on a more acoustic, folk-based sound.

* Tim Smolens – upright bass, hollowbody and electric bass, bowed bass sections, keyboard ( synth bass, handclaps, organs, timpani, gong, strings, sound fx, samples, choir, new age sounds, etc.

A heavy counterweight full of lead shot is installed in the steel linkage so that if the pedal is accidentally released, the drafting board will not spring into the upright position and injure the user.

Placing the tip against the material to be drilled and held upright, a smooth downward pressure is exerted on the board causing the drill to rapidly spin.

Stand-up consists of standing upright on the board and performing tricks on the face as well as in the air.

But before this, there have been sailing boats of various designs that have used wind as the driving force for millennia, and Polynesians have been riding waves for many of them, undertaking day trips over oceans standing upright on a solid board with a vertical sail.

Drake mentioned the idea to surfer Hoyle Schweitzer who wanted to develop it, but Drake was still unsure of how to control and steer what he envisaged in a design concept as a surfboard with upright sail design, whereby the sailor stood upright on the board holding the sail.

The simplest skysurfing technique is to stand upright on the board during freefall, and tilt the nose of the board down to generate forward movement.

The pinboard on which Alexeieff created his extraordinary black and white films is an upright perforated board, three by four feet, into which a million headless steel pins have been inserted.

Air braking involves standing upright on your board as tall as possible with arms outstretched to catch as much wind resistance as possible.

* Boot board amplified with a Fishman upright bass transducer