An Ashkenazi by birth, Lord Levene's first public act was to walk, with a retinue, from his official residence ( Mansion House ) to Bevis Marks Synagogue, for the Sabbath Eve service. This was repeated on Friday 12 November 2010 by the then Lord Mayor Michael Bear.

Phoebus Levene's influential " tetranucleotide hypothesis ", which incorrectly proposed that DNA was a repeating set of identical nucleotides, supported this conclusion.

It was also 75-year-old character actor Sam Levene's final film.

Tested by Levene's test of equality of error variances.

In the analysis of variance ( ANOVA ), alternative tests include Levene's test, Bartlett's test, and the Brown – Forsythe test.

Levene's test and the Brown – Forsythe test are alternatives to the Bartlett test that are less sensitive to departures from normality.

Strobe tuner pedals indicate whether a guitar string is too sharp or flat.

Montoya also created a new palo as a solo for guitar, the rondeña in C sharp with scordatura.

The title track sequence, filmed in black-and-white, is arguably one of the prime archetypes of the modern performance-style music video, employing rhythmic cross-cutting, contrasting long shots and close-ups, and unusual shots and camera angles, such as the shot near the end of the song, in which George Harrison's left hand and the neck of his guitar are seen in sharp focus in the foreground while the completely out-of-focus figure of John Lennon sings in the background.

Paul recalls, " I remember seeing this guy up there on stage at Dallas Brooks Hall in the heart of Melbourne on his own with an acoustic guitar, a microphone, a razor sharp wit and songs that really went deep into me.

The inharmonicity in guitar strings can " cause stopped notes to stop sharp, meaning they will sound sharper both in terms of pitch and beating, than they " should " do.

* " Traditional " guitar amplifiers, with a clean, warm sound, a sharp treble roll-off at 5 kHz or less and bass roll-off at 60 – 100 Hz, and often built-in reverb and tremolo ( sometimes incorrectly called ' vibrato ') units.

A famous short piece of music ( three sharp notes on a horn in a slapstick style ) was played if a contestant ran out of time on a Gold Run, often producing amused reactions in the studio ; the same three notes played on an electric guitar act as the time's-up buzzer on the current Challenge version.

Although his ALS gradually robbed him of his ability to play guitar, to walk, and eventually even to speak, he still remains mentally sharp and, with the aid of a computer, continues composing.

Critics have largely praised Smith's use of the steel guitar, which have often been described as " sharp " and " prominent ".

The album's electronic-influenced sound was a sharp departure from most of their previous efforts, with more emphasis on synthesizers, drum machines, and processed guitar tones.

Set in the key of G major ( the final mix pitches it about a quarter of a semitone below this, while the backing track was taped in G sharp ), it begins with what Alan W. Pollack calls, " a ra-ta-tat half-measure's fanfare of solo snare drums ", followed by a guitar intro of the first chord.

A bevel on the front underside of a steel top plate formed a wide, sharp edge that rested on the top of the guitar body.

Guitarist Richards occasionally took a turn on bass guitar or keyboard and Klahr also incorporated keyboards, as well as a baritone guitar, though they left bass instruments out of some songs altogether, and the album is instead driven by ever-more complex and propulsive dance beats, razor sharp guitar licks (" So Many Animal Calls ", " When the Lines Go Down "), and pronounced use of multiple overlapping vocals from each member of the band (" Snow Patterns ", " No Damage Nocturne ").

In dramatic contrast, Bernard Sumner's guitar work is sharp and clipped, and bears a striking resemblance to Dave Davies ' work on early Kinks singles such as " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

They write tight, solid songs, always sharp, often funny and fueled by with guitar pyrotechnics that ought to make big-haired poseurs think about going back to get those dental hygienist certifications their moms are always nagging ' em about.

The groove is mostly provided by the sousaphone ( or bass guitar in a few recordings ) playing the bass line, and the alto horns playing sharp upbeats.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

* Cracking joints, the practice of manipulating one's bone joints to make a sharp sound

Cracking joints is the action of moving joints to produce a sharp cracking or popping sound.

* Cavitation within the joint — small cavities of partial vacuum form in the fluid and then rapidly collapse, producing a sharp sound.

Accordingly, grok is generally pronounced as a guttural gr terminated by a sharp k with very little or no vowel sound ( a narrow IPA transcription might be ).

The head of the hammer can be left bare for a sharp attack sound, or can be covered with adhesive tape, leather, or fabric for a softer sound.

Edison's method was to indent the sound waves on a piece of tin-foil, while Bell and Tainter's invention called for cutting, or " engraving ", the sound waves into a wax record with a sharp recording stylus.

A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound when the player blows air against a sharp edge or through a reed, causing the air within its resonator ( usually a column of air ) to vibrate.

Tower blocks with balconies are often accidental corner reflectors for sound and return a distinctive echo to an observer making a sharp noise, such as a hand clap, nearby.

In 2007 Kanye West, initially known for more natural sounding hip hop productions influenced by classic R & B music, released his third album Graduation, which featured some songs with a sharp electronic aesthetic, a sound which greatly expanded on West's latest album, where he emphasized synthesizer and vocal manipulations prominently and cited major influences from 1980s synthpop music, as well as from T-Pain, a hip-hop performer known for manipulating his voice by using the electronic effect processor Autotune.

Shock waves are not conventional sound waves ; a shock wave takes the form of a very sharp change in the gas properties on the order of a few mean free paths ( roughly micro-meters at atmospheric conditions ) in thickness.

Engineer Derek Varnals would also contribute heavily to the creation of the early Moody's studio sound, working with Pinder & Clarke to create a more symphonic overlapping sound on the Mellotron as opposed to the sharp ' cut off ' the instrument would normally give, partly achieved by removing all the " sound effects " tapes ( trains, whistles, cockerel crowing, etc.

Other Okinawan instruments include the sanba ( which produce a clicking sound similar to that of castanets ), taiko and a sharp finger whistling called.

Some common whips such as the bullwhip or sparewhip are able to move faster than sound: the tip of the whip breaks the sound barrier and causes a sharp crack — literally a sonic boom.

The band's debut single " The Drowners " attracted excitement because of its sharp contrast to the dying Madchester scene and the U. S. grunge sound of the time.

The vocals were originally rough and nasal, as exemplified by singer-songwriters Floyd Tillman and Hank Williams, but later developed a clear and sharp sound, such as that of singers George Jones and Faron Young.

Every time a string is fretted it is also stretched, and as it stretches the string rises in pitch, making all fretted tones sound sharp.

When the saddle is positioned properly, however, the fretted tones all sound sharp to the same degree as long as the distances between the frets are correct.

The first heart sound may be followed by a sharp ejection sound (" ejection click ") best heard at the lower left sternal border and the apex, and, thus, appear to be " split ".