Oh, I'd relieve all right, plenty of times, but I went right from the bench to the box, and I'd take a few warm-up pitches and be ready.

From this simple idea Daihachi Oguchi put together various Taiko of all different shapes, sizes, and pitches to be included in his ensemble.

To fill in the gaps, many modern dulcimer builders include extra short bridges at the top and bottom of the soundboard, where extra strings are tuned to some or all of the missing pitches.

Systematic alterations to the seven lettered pitches in the scale can be indicated by placing the symbols in the key signature, which then apply implicitly to all occurrences of corresponding notes.

* Pitch class, in music, a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart

Used singly and in combination these valves make the instrument fully chromatic, i. e., able to play all twelve pitches of classical music.

Standard tuning forks are available that vibrate at all the musical pitches within the central octave of the piano, and other pitches.

Of all of the keyboard instruments that are amplified onstage, synthesizers can produce some of the lowest pitches, because unlike a traditional electric piano or electric organ, which have as their lowest notes a low " A " and a low " C ", respectively, a synth does not have a fixed lowest octave.

Richard F. Voss and J. Clarke claim that almost all musical melodies, when each successive note is plotted on a scale of pitches, will tend towards a pink noise spectrum.

Not all instruments can produce vibrato, as some have fixed pitches which cannot be varied by sufficiently small degrees.

In 1966, McLain had a 13-4 record by mid-season to earn the role of starting pitcher for the American League in the 1966 All-Star Game, where he retired all nine batters that he faced with just 28 pitches.

The twelve-tone series loses its imperative function as a prohibiting, regulating, and patterning authority ; its working-out is abandoned through its own constant-frequent presence: all 66 intervallic relations among the 12 pitches being virtually present.

This chromatic passage from the Intermezzo interrotto movement of Béla Bartók | Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra ( Bartók ) | Concerto for Orchestra requires the timpanist to use the pedals to play all the pitches.

As a result, when the tension of the strings is lowered, the pitches of all notes, both fretted and unfretted, becomes correct.

The strings can be made of different materials ( or thicknesses ) and all be tuned to the same pitch, or identical strings can be tuned to different pitches.

Since the bagpipe is the only pipe band instrument capable of producing distinct, variable pitches, the pipers are responsible for providing all of the melodic material in the music.

Rather he independently developed and cataloged all possible collections of pitches ( i. e., all possible three-note chords, five-note chords, etc .).

A series of works in the 1960s and 1970s generates its tonal material by using all possible chords of a particular number of pitches.

The all weather hockey pitches support thriving Ladies ' and Men's teams.

On the southside of Bedgrove is Bedgrove Park, a large field with many football pitches, a community centre, a playground designed for 2-12 year olds and an all weather pitch designed for youths to play football and basketball.

No longer under control, the plane pitches forward and accelerates, crashing into the ground at a speed of around 700 mph ( 1, 100 km / hr ) near Cayucos, California, killing all 43 people on board.

Studio executives put all uncertain scripts and pitches on the shelves during this time to avoid taking a chance on a long-term development and only wanted projects that were ready to go into production.

We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Regardless of its unadjusted allotment, each State is guaranteed by law a minimum allotment each year equal to the allotment which it received in fiscal year 1954 -- increased by a uniform percentage of 5.4865771 which brings total 1954 allotments to all States up to $23,000,000.

This is true because of savings in utility lines and the fact that your buildings have a useful radius equal in all directions.

Not all these regions exhibited equal agglutinating activity, as evidenced by titer and the extent of the active areas.

Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.

it is also their mathematical mean, since it is equal to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which equal 10.

and in this square, the respective pairs made up of large and small odd ( Yang ) numbers, and those composed of large and small even ( Yin ) numbers, were all equal to each other.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.

In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, " conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Jainism considers all living things to be equal.

In its simplest form, ANOVA provides a statistical test of whether or not the means of several groups are all equal, and therefore generalizes t-test to more than two groups.

All other nuclides ( isotopes of hydrogen and all other elements ) have more nucleons than electrons, so the fraction of mass taken by the nucleus is closer to 100 % for all of these types of atoms, than for hydrogen-1 .</ ref > with protons and neutrons having roughly equal mass.

They associated on equal terms with laymen of the highest distinction, and shared all their pleasures and pursuits.

Similarly, the subset order ⊆ on the subsets of any given set is antisymmetric: given two sets A and B, if every element in A also is in B and every element in B is also in A, then A and B must contain all the same elements and therefore be equal:

Allotment therefore was seen as a means to prevent the corrupt purchase of votes and it gave citizens a unique form of political equality as all had an equal chance of obtaining government office.

In these memoirs, he paints himself as a born comedian, careless, light-hearted and with a happy temperament, proof against all strokes of fate, yet thoroughly respectable and honorable.

Beatty was an intelligent and able leader, but all his social and sporting obligations, coupled with his high-strung temperament, prevented him from becoming a coldly calculating professional like Jellicoe – or his adversary, Hipper.

The piece calls for some instruments ( harp, piano, samplers ) to use just intonation, a tuning system in which intervals sound pure, rather than equal temperament, the common Western tuning system in which all intervals except the octave are impure.

This research showed how all temperament types responded to the stimuli the same way, but different temperaments move through the responses at different times.

Any breed or mixture of breeds of dog might produce a representative capable of service work, though few dogs have all of the health and temperament qualities needed.

He hypothesized that temperament diminishes in importance as the personality becomes more developed after puberty ; that a person's temperament may change, especially in the pre-puberty years ; and that temperament is not exclusive: people may combine aspects of several or even, in unusual cases, all of them.

Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), Rudolf Steiner ( 1861 – 1925 ), Alfred Adler ( 1879 – 1937 ), Erich Adickes ( 1866 – 1925 ), Eduard Spranger ( 1914 ), Ernst Kretschmer ( 1920 ), and Erich Fromm ( 1947 ) all theorized on the four temperaments ( with different names ) and greatly shaped our modern theories of temperament.

She allegedly had the ability to keep his temperament under control, was a calming influence on him, managed to get punishments he meted out reduced, advised him to show mercy and leniency, all of which made her popular.

Many instruments ' frets are not spaced according to the semitones of equal temperament, including the Appalachian dulcimer ( with frets in a diatonic scale ), the Turkish Saz ( with frets spaced according to the Makam system of Turkish folk music ), the Arabic Buzuq ( with frets spaced according to the Arabic maqam system ), and the Persian setar and tar ( with frets spaced according to the Persian Dastgah system ), and the Turkish tanbur ( with as many as 5 frets per semitone, to cover all of the commas of the Turkish Makam system ).

Pater's scepticism led him to think that in themselves all such systems lack sense or meaning – until meaning is conferred upon them by their capacity to give expression to a particular temperament.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the number of frets was increased to 24, based on the 12 tone equal temperament scale, with all the intervals being semitones.

Dundy also wrote, " Of all Elvis ' new friends, Nick Adams, by background and temperament the most insecure, was also his closest.

However, the result suffers from the same difficulties as just intonation – for example, the wolf B-G here arises all too easily when availing oneself of the concordant schismatic substitutions just outlined – so it is not surprising that meantone temperament became the dominant tuning system by the early Renaissance.

You is the only known cat on the Discworld to have intimidated Nanny Ogg's battle-scarred tom Greebo, who hides in fear whenever You is in the same room ; this suggests she may be compatible with Granny Weatherwax in temperament after all.

There are a number of different breeds, with varying characteristics but all share common traits of strength, patience, and a docile temperament which made them indispensable to generations of pre-industrial farmers.

In a rage over the attack, he ordered all Serbian captives killed ; Beyazid became known as Yıldırım, the lightning bolt, for his temperament.

At about this point in history, people of all classes began to treat their dogs as domestic pets rather than working animals, and size and appearance became as important as temperament and working ability.

So far, all the variations of Bandura ’ s Bobo Doll Experiment have only focused on a maximum of three important factors ; a combination of background, personal temperament, environment, interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships.

For example, a pure-bred variety of cat, such as Siamese, only produce kittens with Siamese characteristics because their ancestors were inbred until they were homozygous for all of the genes that produce the physical characteristics and temperament associated with the Siamese breed.

His culture, his temperament, his language, his religion, are all different ... to eliminate ( Ukrainian ) nationalism ... the Ukrainian peasantry was sacrificed ... a famine was necessary for the Soviet and so they got one to order ... if the Soviet program succeeds completely, if the intelligentsia, the priest, and the peasant can be eliminated Ukraine will be as dead as if every Ukrainian were killed, for it will have lost that part of it which has kept and developed its culture, its beliefs, its common ideas, which have guided it and given it a soul, which, in short, made it a nation ...

They were all bred to be amiable companion dogs and have a friendly, alert temperament.

A typical hound in temperament — sweet and friendly to all — the Hamiltonstövare is also a hardworking hunter.