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It is played much like a European brass instrument, with the player blowing through the hole, causing the air column inside to vibrate.
In the salad days of camera sales during the 60s and 70s, when the latter were made of satin chrome outside and brass inside and lenses had amber coating, the bargain basements for Japanese equipment were Hong Kong and Singapore, through which goods were channelled to European shop windows bypassing the often substantial levy of the official importers.
During this period, Hawaiian music evolved into a " new distinctive " style, using the derivatives of European instruments ; aside from the widespread string instruments, brass bands like the Royal Hawaiian Band performed Hawaiian songs as well as popular marches and ragtimes.
Rhythms from across West Africa, especially gombe and ashiko from Sierra Leone, Liberian guitar-styles like dagomba, mainline and fireman, Fante osibisaba, European brass bands and sea shanties and Christian music, were all combined into a melting pot that became high-life.
Consequently, for the recreation of tracks like the themes from " Star Wars " and " The War of the Worlds ", included in the " Star Wars and Other Hits " medley on Longplay-Album II and released as the third European single under the title " Volume III ", a full symphony orchestra was used, including strings, brass, woodwind, harpsichord, orchestral percussion like timpani etc.
In 1997 she gave an unusual performance of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 at London's St John's, Smith Square, with a brass band, The Marple Band, as part of the European Brass Band Championships.
* Monumental brass, commemorative plates laid down in British and European churches
After undergoing a major renovation in 1994, Meridian House's principal rooms retain their architectural detail as well as some of the original decorative features, such as the 18th century European overdoor paintings and antique brass hardware and lighting fixtures.
The suona has a conical wooden body, but its optional, similar to that of the European oboe, but uses a tubular brass or copper bocal to which a small double reed is affixed, and possesses a detachable metal bell at its end.
Finally, late in the century, the African American cakewalk evolved into ragtime, which became a North American and European sensation, while mainstream America was enthralled by the brass band marches of John Philips Sousa.
The Christmas cantata A newborn child, before eternity, God !, with text from a kontakion by the 6th century hymnographer Romanos the Melodist ( translated into Danish by the priest Kristian Høeg ) was given its first performance in 1996, commissioned by Kulturby 96 – the European Capital of Culture 1996, and was released on CD in 1997, as recorded in Messiaskirken in Charlottenlund with the soloists Ingibjörg Gudjonsdottir, soprano, Elisabeth Halling, alto, Gert Henning-Jensen, tenor, Christian Christiansen, bass, two mixed choirs, two children's choirs, brass band, organ and percussion, conducted by Steen Lindholm.
She was a brass finalist in the 1992 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, and was also a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, 2nd Essex Youth Orchestra and the Cambridge Youth Concert Band.
These ancient brasses were often stolen and re-erected after being engraved on the reverse, as at Berkhampstead, because until the establishment of a manufactory at Esher by a German artisan in 1649, all sheet brass had to be imported from other countries on the European mainland.

European and industry
The industry now relies on contract agreements with European firms and attracting foreign investment.
Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media's attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate by rarely, if ever, going to Hollywood.
* Blair, Alasdair M. " The British iron and steel industry since 1945 ," Journal of European Economic History Winter 1997, Vol.
Depending on the items on the agenda, this formation is composed of ministers responsible for areas such as European affairs, industry, tourism and scientific research.
* European Domestic Market in the automobile industry, A slang term used by some North Americans to describe the European Economic Area
After World War I, the French film industry suffered because of a lack of capital, and film production decreased as it did in most other European countries.
This allowed the United States film industry to enter the European cinema market, because American films could be sold more cheaply than European productions, since the studios already had recouped their costs in the home market.
Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of American and European influence.
The wool industry, originally established at Bruges, created the first European industrialized zone in Ghent in the High Middle Ages.
This project, led by ESA and European Satellite Navigation Industries, has provided industry with fundamental knowledge to develop the mission segment of the Galileo positioning system.
Many European Soviet citizens and much of Russia's industry were relocated to Kazakhstan during World War II, when Nazi armies threatened to capture all the European industrial centers of the Soviet Union.
By shutting down the German industry the Allies disrupted intra-European trade, a trade that was vital for European recovery, and they thereby delayed European economic recovery.
Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche () or Porsche SE, a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German holding company with investments in the automotive industry.
Romania entered the 1990s a relatively poor country by European standards, largely a result of the failed economic policies of Nicolae Ceauşescu in the 1970s and of the failures of privatization in Romania during the 1990s, which decreased the GDP by almost 50 % and ruined the industry because of corruption.
Although banana revenues have helped fund the country's development since the 1960s, the industry is now in a terminal decline, due to competition from lower-cost Latin American banana producers and reduced European Union trade preferences.
In the negotiations starting in the late 80s preceding the two countries ' entries to the European Economic Area and later the European Union, they insisted on exemptions from the EU rules citing environmental concerns and the transportation needs of the logging industry.
Telefónica is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has run pilot HbbTV services in Spain.
As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings — such as Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), Minima Moralia ( 1951 ) and Negative Dialectics ( 1966 )— strongly influenced the European New Left.

European and continued
Back and breast plates continued to be used throughout the entire period of the 18th century and through Napoleonic times, in many European ( heavy ) cavalry units, until the early 20th century.
American colonists and European forces continued using disciplined lines, continuing into the American Civil War.
Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.
In the Middle Ages, combinatorics continued to be studied, largely outside of the European civilization.
The continued difficulties in finding a settlement presented a potential obstacle to Cypriot entry to the European Union, for which the government had applied in 1997.
The ELN rejected entering any negotiation and continued to recover itself through the use of extortions and threats, in particular against foreign oil companies of European and U. S. origin.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just the opposite was the case with little to no population concentration in major industrial centres as the predominantly rural resource-dependent Maritime economy continued on the same path as it had since European settlement on the region's shores.
As the Order first developed on the European continent, learning continued to be emphasized by these friars and their sisters in Christ.
It continued therefore to engage in the Grand Coalition ( a coalition with the Socialist Group, or occasionally the Liberals ) to generate the majorities required by the cooperation procedure under the Single European Act.
Pretenders to the title continued among the European nobility until circa 1383.
It has continued to maintain close ties with North America, the European Union, Japan, Australia, India, China, Russia and the Greater Middle East as well as African nations.
While its influence continued to be felt in small ways in some west European states, the Gothic language and culture largely disappeared during the Middle Ages.
* Gelatin was first used as an external surface sizing for paper in 1337 and continued as a dominant sizing agent of all European papers through the mid-19th century.
While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders increasingly tie the future of France to the continued development of the European Union.
Impressionism in music was a movement in European classical music, mainly in France, which appeared in the late nineteenth century and continued into the beginning of the twentieth century.
The famine was by far the most significant turning point in the demographics of the country, as not only did Ireland's population not grow for the next century, it continued a slow decline, the result of which is that the Republic of Ireland has a significantly smaller population today than would be expected for a European country of its size.
In July 1996, disagreement on policy caused EFnet to break in two: the slightly larger European half ( including Australia and Japan ) formed IRCnet, while the American servers continued as EFnet.
Musical Impressionism is the name given to a movement in European classical music that arose in the late 19th century and continued into the middle of the 20th century.
After the defeat of Napoleon, who caused the dissolution of that first German Empire, Prussia, and the German states continued to stand aloof from imperialism, preferring to manipulate the European system through polices such as those of Metternich.
Scholars in almost every European nation continued to repeat and improve upon Saint Isidore's assertion of descent from Noah through Japheth into the nineteenth century.
Henry III continued his attempts to reclaim Normandy and Anjou until 1259, but John's continental losses and the consequent growth of Capetian power in the 13th century proved to mark a " turning point in European history ".
Its European peoples, of ethnic French, Spanish and Mexican descent, were largely Catholic ; in addition, there was a large population of enslaved Africans made up of a high proportion of recent arrivals from Africa, as Spain had continued the international slave trade.
He continued with a series of pioneering projects, culminating in his two European masterworks: the temporary German Pavilion for the Barcelona exposition ( often called the Barcelona Pavilion ) in 1929 ( a 1986 reconstruction is now built on the original site ) and the elegant Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, completed in 1930.
Simultaneously, institutional and legal adjustments were continued, resulting from the accession to the European Union.

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