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order and tune
Many inductors used in radio applications ( usually less than 100 MHz ) use adjustable cores in order to tune such inductors to their desired value, since manufacturing processes have certain tolerances ( inaccuracy ).
In order to tune the receiver to a particular station, the frequency of the local oscillator is controlled by the tuning knob ( for instance ).
Sometimes these reeds may be slightly out of tune with each other in order to produce a vibrato effect ; this is called wet, musette, or Chicago tuning.
The pager also held access time information in order to tune performance.
Emerging from the woods, the order was given to " advance " and a fifer began playing the popular tune " Will you come to the bower I have shaded for you?
The Viper engine ( a 90-degree engine with odd firing order to obviate the need for a balance shaft ) has been tweaked through the years, and for the fifth-generation Viper produces in a standard state of tune from its 8. 4 liter displacement.
* Jackson Browne on his 1977 tour, " Running On Empty ", wrote his famous song " The Load-Out " ( usually heard in a live version hybrid with a cover of the Maurice Williams tune " Stay ") in order to honor his roadies.
The bolts, called " tension rods ", are screwed into threaded " lugs " attached to the drum shell, in order to tighten and tune the drumhead.
* Richard Strauss's tone poem Ein Heldenleben includes a passage in which the second violins must tune their G strings down in order to play a G. In Don Quixote, the solo viola tunes the C string down to B.
Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin, an Irish harpist of the 17th century most famous as the composer of Tabhair dom do lámh, may have penned the popular Irish tune the " Derry Air ", in order to lament the destruction of Ó Catháin power.
" There was much noise, calls for order and the singing of a ribald chorus of ' On Rosenwater's doorstep, down Leytonstone way ' to the tune of Mother Kelly.
Eckman later served as a crew chief on Pro Stock teams, but waited until 2012 to regain his competition licence in order to help tune for the team he was working.
The band also performed a tune called " Spaceship Adventure " on Nickelodeon's Yo Gabba Gabba, where the group were referred to simply as " Brandon, Ronnie, Mark and Dave ", as opposed to " The Killers ", in order to be more suitable for young children.
North American providers normally lock their subscribers into " package receivers " unable to tune outside their one package ; often the receivers are sold at artificially low prices and the subscription cost for programming is increased in order to favour new subscribers over existing ones.
The verse establishes the background and mood of the number, and is musically undistinguished in order to highlight the attractions of the main tune.
One theory holds that this was the first ryūkōka song, which was made by Hogetsu Shimamura's order: " the tune between Japanese popular folk music and Western music ".
As the proportions of government funding in stations ' budgets continued to decline over time, such programs became more elaborate in order to sway people who would otherwise watch public TV only sporadically ( or not at all ) to tune in, and possibly donate money in response to appeals during program breaks.
In order to " tune " the compressor for these changing conditions, designs starting in the 1950s would " bleed " air out of the middle of the compressor in order to avoid trying to compress too much air in the final stages.
Realizing that his state did not possess an anthem, in order not to appear backward in front of his hosts, proceeded to hum the aforementioned tune, thus ' creating ' the state anthem of Perak .....
This page was an ad for a classical music radio station ; at one point in the game, the player must tune a radio to the frequency listed in the ad ( AM 1170 ) in order to proceed.
The new guard is then given the order " Get on parade ", at which point they advance to the tune of " The British Grenadiers " from the band, and form up dressed off the sergeants of the guard.
Nearly all shooters in centerfire competition handload their ammunition in order to tune it to their rifle.
The reason for this is the nenano interval ; for it seems to be in some way halved, even if we are not aware of it ; in other words, we perform the nenano intervals weakly in upward direction, in order to give the characteristic colour of nenano, but in downward direction perform them correctly, and this causes the melody to get out of tune.

order and octave
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If an instrument has a range too high or too low for composers to easily write its music on bass or treble clef, the music may be written either an octave higher or an octave lower than it sounds, in order to reduce the use of ledger lines.
This change was announced by the Congregation for Divine Worship in Notitiae March – April, 2006 ( 475-476, page 96 ) in order to avoid occurrences of the feasts of St. Joseph and the Annunciation both being moved to just after the Easter octave.
Like Western classical music, it divides the octave into 12 semitones of which the 7 basic notes are, in ascending tonal order, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa for Hindustani music and Sa Ri Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa for Carnatic music, similar to Western music's Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do.
Thus Johnston uses, " potentially hundreds of pitches per octave ," in way that is, " radical without being avant-garde ," and not for the creation of, " as-yet-unheard dissonances ," but in order to, " return ... to a kind of musical beauty ," he perceives as diminished in Western music since the adoption of equal-temperament ( Gann 1995, 1 ).
The bass tessitura and reëntrant stringing mean that in order to keep the realisation above the bass when accompanying Basso Continuo the bass must be sometimes played an octave lower Kapsperger.
A fancier second-order filter will reduce those frequencies with a slope of 12 dB per octave and moreover may be designed with a higher Q or finite zeros in order to effect an even steeper response around the cutoff frequency.
The most characteristic feature was that the voices, male and female respectively, doubled their parts in any octave in order to fill out the harmony ; this generated a texture of close-position chords that was unknown in European traditions.
He uses Gibson Dirty Fingers Humbucking Pickups, the same bridge pickup Tom uses in all of his signature ES-333 models, in order to emulate Delonge's signature distorted, over driven tone when playing hand muted octave chords, often with delay effects.
Book I ( The Book of Sacraments in the order of the year's cycle ) contains Masses for feasts and Sundays from Christmas Eve to the octave of Pentecost ( there are as yet no special Masses for the season after Pentecost ), together with the ordinations, prayers for all the rites of the catechumenate, blessing of the font at the Easter Vigil, of the oil, dedication of churches, and reception of nuns.
Its lowest note is B < sub > 2 </ sub > ( in scientific pitch notation ), one octave and a semitone below middle C, although an extension may be inserted between the lower joint and bell of the instrument in order to produce a low B < sub > 2 </ sub >.
These instruments may have approximately 23 frets, giving the 4-course mandocello a range from two octaves below middle C to the F an octave above middle C. Bowl-back instruments may have a shorter scale length, on the order of 22. 5 inches, and concert bowl-back instruments may have more frets permitting virtuoso passage work in the upper register.
In Beijing opera, the player uses a small wood dowel instead of a plectrum to perform, and only plays in first position ; this requires the performer to use octave displacement in order to play all the pitches within a given melody.
Overblowing, on the sordoni, moreover, produced as first harmonic ( the only one required for reed-blown instruments in order to produce the diatonic scale for the second octave ) not the octave, but the twelfth, or number 3 of the series.

order and piano
It seems all facades were to have a giant order of pilasters rising at least two storeys to the full height of the piano nobile, " a gandiloquent feature unprecedented in private palace design ".
It was a small piano, able to be lifted by four men, painted olive drab, gray or blue, designed to be carried aboard ships or dropped by parachute from an airplane, in order to bring music to the soldiers.
The majority of the world's concert halls have at least one Steinway concert grand piano model D-274, some ( for example Carnegie Hall ) have model D-274s from both the New York City factory and the Hamburg factory in order to satisfy a greater range of preferences.
In 1810, Clementi stopped concertizing in order to devote his time to composition and piano making.
In the piano version of his Piège de Méduse ( 1913 or 1914 ) Erik Satie's score called for placing sheets of paper on the piano strings in order to imitate the mechanical sound of a monkey puppet that figured in the play.
; Reproducing pianos: These are fully automated versions of the player piano requiring no human manual control in order to produce the illusion of a live musical performance.
On a fanned fret board the frets are spread out like a fan-with only one center fret perpendicular to the necks centerline and the rest angled-in order to give the lowest strings more length and the higher strings shorter length ( comparable to a piano or a harp where the different strings also have different lengths ).
Many instruments now have a complex action incorporating actual hammers in order to better simulate the touch of a grand piano.
Of the Violin Sonatas writing it has been said: " Franck, blissfully apt to forget that not every musician's hands were as enormous as his own, littered the piano part ( the last movement in particular ) with major-tenth chords ... most mere pianistic mortals ever since have been obligated to spread them in order to play them at all.
Instead of using the traditional NES controller, the piano becomes the controller as players hit targets in order to perfect their music skills.
From designs by Raphael for his own palazzo in Rome on an island block it seems that all facades were to have a giant order of pilasters rising at least two stories to the full height of the piano nobile, " a grandiloquent feature unprecedented in private palace design ".
His earliest work to receive an opus number was a piano trio in G minor, but was preceded, in order of composition, by several works including an unpublished serenade in B minor for piano dating from 1886-7 ; all of these bear the influences of Schumann and Grieg.
A special type of thumb piano is the Array mbira, consisting of as many as 150 tines configured in a special order based on the circle of fifths ( see Isomorphic keyboard.
In 1990, the band integrated a four-piece horn section with traditional instruments such as accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, in order to add an element of jazz to their music.
Lucy has often spoken of getting Schroeder to give up his piano, such as getting him to realize that married life has financial hardships and he may have to sell his piano in order to buy her a good set of saucepans.
If sound is traveling at 344 m / s and the corrugated iron has a wavelength ( pitch ) of 3 ” or. 0762 m this will produce an echo with a maximum wavelength of that order, which corresponds to a frequency of 4500 Hz or so ( approximately the C above top A on a standard piano ).
At this house, above the shop, Edmund had the back bedroom for his work, but the stairs were not wide enough to allow the piano to be brought up, so the window frame of his room had to be removed in order to get the piano in from outside.
The following list ( inevitably incomplete ) tries to place the major sonatas and equivalent works for cello and piano or cello solo in chronological order of completion.
" Among its characteristics are: the use of repeated, homophonic blocks of sound, which prompted the Dutch critic Elmer Schönberger to call her " the lady with the hammer "; unusual combinations of instruments ( such as eight double basses, piano and percussion in her Composition No. 2 ); considerable use of extreme dynamics ( as in her Piano Sonata No. 6 ); employing groups of instruments in order to introduce tone clusters ; and the use of piano or percussion to beat out regular unchanging rhythms ( all of her acknowledged works use either piano or percussion, many use both ).

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