Many letters have shapes also found in the historical futhorc runes ( used in The Hobbit ), but their sound values are dissimilar.

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.

Many luthiers consider the top the dominant factor in determining the sound quality.

Many Hollywood studios were recruiting stage actors and directors that they believed were better suited for sound films.

Many users fondly remember the LEO III and enthuse about some of its quirkier features, such as having a loudspeaker connected to the central processor which enabled operators to tell whether a program was looping by the distinctive sound it made.

# Many Poles living in emigrant communities ( for example in the USA ), whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as spoken in the first half of the 20th century that now sound archaic, however, to contemporary visitors from Poland.

Many have pulsatile tinnitus, a whooshing sensation in one or both ears ( 64 – 87 %); this sound is synchronous with the pulse.

Many bands, particularly in the developing London club scene, tried to emulate black rhythm and blues performers, resulting in a " rawer " or " grittier " sound than the more popular " beat groups ".

Many helped pioneer psychedelic, and eventually progressive and hard rock, having a major influence of the nature and sound of rock music and meaning that rhythm and blues would be a major component of that sound.

Many slide guitarists will still use their free fingers to fret the strings if they want to employ that sound as well.

Many digital, virtual analog and software synthesizers utilise subtractive synthesis, sometimes in conjunction with other methods of sound synthesis.

Many new types of military sound detection were developed.

Many dog whistles emit sound in the upper audible range of humans, but some, such as the silent whistle, emit ultrasound at a frequency in the range 18 – 22 kHz.

Many find the sound and appearance of flowing water to be calming, and fountains and other water features are popular decorations.

Many Romanian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Iris and Holograf, continue to be popular, particularly with the middle-aged, while since the beginning of the 1990s the hip hop / rap scene has developed a unique sound and indigenous style.

Many other languages have words that sound the same as nigger ( are homophonic ), but do not necessarily have the same meaning, while on the other hand having ethnic slurs dissimilar to ' nigger ' but carrying the same meaning.

Many tornadoes are not audible from much distance ; the nature and propagation distance of the audible sound depends on atmospheric conditions and topography.

Many fans were reminded of the band's 1970s sound largely because of Khoroshev's classically oriented approach, though White also brought in world music influences with Latinesque arrangements, and with multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch contributing to the album's textures.

Many sound effects cannot be recorded in a studio, such as explosions, gunfire, and automobile or aircraft maneuvers.

Many people are unaware of the presence of environmental sound at damaging levels, or of the level at which sound becomes harmful.

Many warning sirens have a sound that is distinct from that used by emergency vehicles due to use of two simultaneous tones, with pitches usually in a 5: 6 frequency ratio ( an untempered minor third ).

Many digital cameras can also record moving video with sound.

Many modern sound cards and PC games incorporated A3D via license from Aureal.

Many computer programs contain algorithms that detail the specific instructions a computer should perform ( in a specific order ) to carry out a specified task, such as calculating employees ' paychecks or printing students ' report cards.

Many CPU accelerator cards also had integrated SCSI controllers.

Many 3rd party companies would introduce compatible Ethernet and Token Ring cards that used these same drivers.

* Many credit cards offer payment protection plans which are a form of credit insurance.

Many also lift the cards up after a riffle, forming what is called a bridge which puts the cards back into place.

Many Central American and South American nationals can travel within their respective regional economic zones, such as Mercosur and the Andean Community of Nations, or on a bilateral basis ( e. g., between Chile and Peru, between Brazil and Chile ), without passports, presenting instead their national ID cards, or, for short stays, their voter-registration cards.

Many other countries followed suit, including Ireland in 1990 and the UK circa 1994-1995, which phased out the old green Landis & Gyr cards in favor of the more colorful chip ( smart ) cards.

Many cards make a verbal announcement if credit is running out.

Many magnetic stripe cards also use BMC encoding, often called F2F ( frequency / double frequency ) or Aiken Biphase.

Many data-centric telecommunications platforms such as routers and Ethernet switches utilize distributed switching on separate cards within an equipment chassis.

Many of the lower classes had access to playing cards.

Many professional embroidery operations still refer to those individuals who create the designs and machine patterns as " punchers ", even though punched cards and paper tape were eventually phased out, after many years of use, in the 1990s.

Many variants penalize players for touching their cards or looking at their cards before the game begins or before the dealer looks at his or her cards.

Many smart cards are designed to be tamper-resistant ( although some designs have been broken, notably by Ross Anderson and his students ).

Many notebooks in the 1990s had two adjacent type-II slots, which allowed installation of two type-II cards or one, double-thickness, type-III card.

Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the " broadsheet size " with dimensions representing the front page " half of a broadsheet " size, rather than the full, unfolded broadsheet spread.

Many corporations demonstrated the use of mainframe computers, computer terminals with keyboards and CRT displays, Teletype machines, punch cards, and telephone modems in an era when computer equipment was kept in back offices away from the public, decades before the Internet and home computers were at everyone's disposal.

Many times very promising suits are lost at the beginning of the game because the two who hold the dominant high cards in that suit and separated by a player in between with no cards of that suit but high cards of a different suit.