He possessed the fighter pilot's horror of bad weather and instrument flying, and he wondered, if the ceiling did drop, whether he and the other flights would be able to find their way back in this unfamiliar territory.

Armadillo shells have traditionally been used to make the back of the charango, an Andean lute instrument.

( Another simpler system, called ladder bracing, where the braces are all placed across the width of the instrument, is used on all types of flat-top guitars on the back.

The " Fender Bass " was a revolutionary new instrument, one that could easily be played by an electric guitarist, could be easily transported to a gig, and could be amplified to just about any volume without feeding back ".

Turntablism embodies the art of cutting, beat juggling, scratching, needle drops, phase shifting, back spinning, and more to perform the transitions and overdubs of samples in a more creative manner ( although turntablism is often considered a use of the turntable as a musical instrument rather than a tool for blending recorded music ).

The double bass also differs from members of the violin family in that the shoulders are typically sloped, the back is often angled ( both to allow easier access to the instrument, particularly in the upper range ), and machine tuners are always fitted.

Various experiments at electrically amplifying the vibrations of a string instrument date back to the early part of the twentieth century.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having " a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides ".

Archtop guitars are steel-string instruments in which the top ( and often the back ) of the instrument are carved from a solid billet in a curved rather than a flat shape ; this violin-like construction is usually credited to the American Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).

Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck ( either fretted or unfretted ) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.

The back or the shell is assembled from thin strips of hardwood ( maple, cherry, ebony, rosewood, gran, wood and / or other tonewoods ) called ribs, joined ( with glue ) edge to edge to form a deep rounded body for the instrument.

Other American-made variants include the mandolinetto or Howe-Orme guitar-shaped mandolin ( manufactured by the Elias Howe Company between 1897 and roughly 1920 ), which featured a cylindrical bulge along the top from fingerboard end to tailpiece ; the Army-Navy style with a flat back and top ; and the Vega mando-lute ( more commonly called a cylinder-back mandolin manufactured by the Vega Company between 1913 and roughly 1927 ), which had a similar longitudinal bulge but on the back rather than the front of the instrument.

Even a sound card that contains high-quality sampled sounds will have inconsistent quality from one instrument to another, and early budget cards, such as the AdLib and the Sound Blaster and its compatibles, used a stripped-down version of Yamaha's frequency modulation synthesis ( FM synthesis ) technology played back through low-quality digital-to-analog converters.

The length of the air column ( and the pitch of the note produced ) is modified by finger holes in the front and thumb hole at the back of the instrument.

Within two or three decades, this led to the evolution of an entirely new and dedicated bowed string instrument that retained many of the features of the original plucked vihuela: a flat back, sharp waist-cuts, frets, thin ribs ( initially ), and an identical tuning — hence its original name, vihuela de arco ; arco is Spanish for " bow ".

In some cases, transfer is by endorsement, or signing the back of the instrument, and delivery.

The Mark 7 was the first instrument to be released under the Rhodes name since the late Harold Rhodes purchased it back from Roland.

** Sampler ( musical instrument ), an electronic music instrument that plays back sound recordings on command

The rest of us can fort up in the house and hang on until you get back.

`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

And though we can look back now and see their errors, we can look back also to the ultimate error.

The Axioms required to make the theoretical machinery operate are set out tersely and powerfully, so that all permissible operations within the theory can be traced rigorously back to these axioms, rules, and primitive notions.

By an effort of historical sympathy we can cast our minds back into the art of a remote past or an alien present, and enjoy the carvings of cavemen and Japanese colour-prints ; ;

He can ( 1 ) point his car resolutely at the invading fender and force the other driver back into Lane A ; ;

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

IBM has a machine that can understand spoken words and talk back.

No matter how often a man goes back to the scenes of his youth and strength, they can never be recaptured again.

As I see it, if war starts and we survive the initial attack enough to be able to fight back, the nuclear weapons we now have -- at least the bombs -- can inflict all the demage that is necessary.

We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

Straight vertical edges, such as those at the back seam of a sock, can be woven together invisibly.

No one can deny that these `` back door '' admissions to membership provisions have been seriously abused nor that they have not resulted in the admission of downright incompetents to membership in supposedly learned societies.

Then during washing, the greasy soil rolls back at the edges so that emulsified droplets can disengage themselves from the sorbed oil mass, with the aid of mechanical action, and enter the aqueous phase.

In the written language then can be underlined or italicized to guide the reader here, but much of the time the written language simply depends on the reader's alertness, and a careless reader will have to back up and reread.

To the extent that the problem is merely parking, an aggressive downtown management, like that of Lazarus Brothers in Columbus, Ohio, can fight back successfully by building a garage on the lot next door.

You can sit back and moan and bewail your lot.

I can say this: I'm dead serious about going back to school.

I can drop you back here to pick mine up ''.

Then, after I'm back, another fifty so you can put some mileage on yourself and have a solid alibi somewhere while I take care of your seat cover boy ''.