The malleability and acoustic properties of brass have made it the metal of choice for musical instruments such as the trombone, tuba, trumpet, cornet, euphonium, tenor horn, and French horn which are collectively known as the brass within an orchestra.

As with other instruments using friction pegs, the choice of wood used to make pegs is crucial.

In Victorian times the drum and pan pipes were the instruments of choice.

The particular choice and number of instruments derives from the registers of the human voice: soprano, alto, tenor and bass.

For spacecraft carrying instruments for which an altitude of 36000 km is suitable the Geostationary orbit is sometimes the preferred choice.

In keyboard instruments, the contact point along the string ( whether this be hammer, tangent, or plectrum ) is a choice made by the instrument designer.

The choice of scat syllables can also be used to reflect the sounds of different instruments.

Instruments are usually made from African Blackwood ( aka Grenadilla ), although some makers offer instruments in a choice of alternative woods as well, such as cocobolo ( Howarth ) or violet wood ( Lorée ), which are said to alter the voice of the cor anglais slightly, reputedly making it even more mellow and warmer.

The same day, they went to a local music store and given his choice of instruments, Pete chose the clarinet ( after first wanting the drums, which his father declined per the doctor's orders ).

The horns play a prominent role in all but the second movement, and Haydn's choice of E flat major may have been dictated by the fact that the valveless horns of the time sounded best when played as E flat instruments ( that is, with E flat crooks inserted ).

His choice items included copies of the Qur ' an a number of astronomical instruments and treatises, and a number of Ismaili works.

Land's skills as a composer and arranger are no more evident than in his choice of timbre ; bringing together European folk and classical instruments with Caribbean and Central American instruments, weaving a texture that combines steel-pans, accordions, and afro-Cuban percussion amongst others.

Containing details on the choice of the ohtur ( auctor, head, augur ) of the ceremony, the dispositions of the ritual instruments, the ritual invocations for the safety of the city to Iove Patre and Puemonos, the distribution of the sacrificial meat and the libations.

Four points made the missi effective as instruments of the centralized monarchy: the personal character of the missus, yearly change, isolation from local interests and the free choice of the king.

Pickup-equipped archtops were the guitars of choice in the dance bands of the late -' 40s, but the increasing popularity of roadhouses and dance halls created a growing need for louder, cheaper, and more durable instruments.

* Split point: The point on a keyboard where the choice of instrument can be split to allow two instruments to be played at once.

He has said that he prefers both of these instruments to the guitar, the latter of which was not his first choice of instrument upon receiving one from his father when beginning to play.

The change of timbres, the felicitous choice of melodic designs and figuration patterns, exactly suiting each kind of instrument, brief virtuoso cadenzas for instruments solo, the rhythm of the percussion instruments, etc., constitute here the very essence of the composition and not its garb or orchestration.

He was convinced that musical expressiveness is a lovely flower, delicate and rare, of exquisite fragrance, which does not bloom without culture, and which a breath can wither ; that it does not dwell in melody alone, but that everything concurs either to create or destroy it-melody, harmony, modulation, rhythm, instrumentation, the choice of deep or high registers for the voices or instruments, a quick or slow tempo, and the several degrees of volume in the sound emitted.

Following Murphy's model was Barbara Benary, who built the instruments still used today for Gamelan Son of Lion On the West coast, the airline industry made aluminum affordable, and this became the material of choice for several gamelan builders.

In addition, there are non-multiple choice conceptual instruments, such as the essay-based approach suggested by Wright et al.

In the interview, Geils revealed his playing approach, jazz influences and choice of instruments.

In 1975 electors of Māori descent were given the choice of whether to register on the Maori or " general " electoral registers.

If M has a boundary N then there is additional data which describes a choice of trivialization of the principal G-bundle on N. Such a choice characterizes a map from N to G. The dynamics of this map is described by the Wess – Zumino – Witten ( WZW ) model on N at level k.

Other models have analyzed the spread of epidemics, the threat of biowarfare, biological applications including population dynamics, the growth and decline of ancient civilizations, evolution of ethnocentric behavior, forced displacement / migration, language choice dynamics, cognitive modeling, and biomedical applications including inflammation and the human immune system.

Even though the majority of metropolitan planning agencies in the US do not use formal land-use models, we need to understand the subject: the concepts and analytic tools shape how land-use / transportation matters are thought about and handled ; there is a good bit of interest in the research community where there have been important developments ; and a new generation of land-use models such as LEAM and UrbanSim has developed since the 1990s that depart from these aggregate models, and incorporate innovations in discrete choice modeling, microsimulation, dynamics, and geographic information systems.

The Intermediates in the Class with the Judge were asked to pick 4 winners and give their reasons but their decisions did not affect the choice of the Judge.

The choice of isotope ordinarily has little effect on the electrical properties of a material, but does affect the frequency of lattice vibrations, this effect suggested that superconductivity be related to vibrations of the lattice.

The choice does affect their starting position on the " Play on Earth " map, and thus different resources in one's initial cities, but has no effect on starting position when starting a random world game or a customized world game.

Philip Zimbardo discusses mind control as " the process by which individual or collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition and / or behavioral outcomes ", and he suggests that any human being is susceptible to such manipulation.

While working there she gained her interest in Asia that would later affect her choice of fieldwork as a working anthropologist.

The choice of a coordinate system doesn't affect the properties of a vector or its behaviour under transformations.

A rapidly-growing mainstream literature from the 1970s has expanded beyond the model of economic policy in which planners maximize utility of a representative individual toward examining how political forces affect the choice of policies, especially as to distributional conflicts and political institutions.

A more classical-liberal approach that dates from the 1970s that denotes ' public-choice ' theory type approaches which question the benevolence of social planners to maximize the utility of a representative individual and instead stress how political forces affect the choice of policies that may not be so benevolent.

It appears that the choice between a Long-Leaper and a Single-Leaper tends to affect game play by encouraging " hunkering down " and overdefending pieces, and allowing pieces to spread across the board more, with less attention to bulky blockades.

In addition to the choice of herbs and seasoning, the timing of when flavours are added will affect the food that is being cooked.

As this is an effective description of the system, it is a matter of choice as to what to define the experimental system to include and this will affect when " collapse " occurs.

Using their reasoning, he said, a choice of measurement setting here should not affect the outcome of a measurement there ( and vice versa ).

The choice and conditions of use of cryptographic mechanisms may affect card exportability.

The choice of EABI can affect performance.

Rotifers affect the species composition of algae in ecosystems through their choice in grazing.

A network administrator can reduce the cost of a spanning tree, if necessary, by altering some of the configuration parameters in such a way as to affect the choice of the root of the spanning tree.

Sunk costs should not affect the rational decision-maker's best choice.

As mentioned above, choice of individual assembler instructions ( or even sometimes just their order of execution ) on particular machines can affect the efficiency of an algorithm.

Over a two-week treatment of healthy volunteers, sertraline slightly improved verbal fluency but did not affect word learning, short-term memory, vigilance, flicker fusion time, choice reaction time, memory span, or psychomotor coordination.

The choice of deck does not affect the rules.

The choice of transition may affect the amount of inter-cache traffic, which in turn may affect the amount of cache bandwidth available for actual work.

While this may affect the choice of an antenna, an antenna's impedance can also be adapted to the desired impedance level of a system using an matching network while maintaining the other characteristics ( except for a possible loss of efficiency ).

Over concern about side-effects, for example weight gain and acne, often affect choice.