The change from gut to steel has also affected the instrument's playing technique over the last hundred years, because playing with steel strings allows the strings to be set up closer to the fingerboard, and, additionally, steel strings can be played in higher positions on the lower strings and still produce clear tone.

An unamplified acoustic bass's tone is limited by the frequency responsiveness of the instrument's hollow body, which means that the very low pitches may not be as loud as the higher pitches.

The size and placement of tone holes, the key mechanism, and the fingering system used to produce the notes in the flute's range were evolved from 1832 to 1847 by Theobald Boehm, and greatly improved the instrument's dynamic range and intonation over those of its predecessors.

Finding that an increased volume of air produced a stronger and clearer tone, he replaced the conical bore with a cylindrical bore, finding that a parabolic contraction of the bore near the embouchure hole improved the instrument's low register.

Often placing a piece of tape over one edge of the fipple slot ( just below the mouthpiece ) to narrow the fipple will improve the instrument's tone and playability significantly.

Another variety is a neck with two holes bored 3 / 4 of the way through, parallel to the fretboard and close to the headstock ( an innovation said to color the instrument's tone ).

The chamber's own resonances supply the reinforcement, and so the tone quality and resonances of the instrument are altered as a whole wherever the chamber's resonances mismatch the chamberless instrument's.

He embodies the American style ; with a clean, singing tone with occasional vibrato, and consistent sound throughout the instrument's entire register.

The angle of the instrument's conicity is quite wide ( though not as wide as that of a saxophone ), giving it a characteristically strong and powerful tone.

For electric instruments such as electric guitar, the amplifier helps to create the instrument's tone by boosting the input signal gain and distorting the signal, and by emphasizing frequencies deemed to be desirable ( e. g., low frequencies ) and de-emphasizing frequencies deemed to be undesirable ( e. g., very high frequencies ).

A set of rudiments ( practice rhythms ) were also created by him to accommodate the instrument's unique tone.

Most guitar amplifiers can also modify the instrument's tone by emphasizing or de-emphasizing certain frequencies and adding electronic effects.

A bass guitar can also be played through a bass amp in parallel with a distorted guitar amp by using a DI box ; the bass amp provides the low frequencies, while the guitar amp – which is not capable of reproducing the lowest frequencies of the bass guitar – emphasizes the upper harmonics of the instrument's tone.

In the case of the clarinet, the instrument's single reed beats against its mouthpiece, opening and closing the instrument's cylindrical closed tube to produce a tone.

The pickup placement, closer to the instrument's neck than on Gibson's EH steel guitars and on guitars made by other manufacturers, produced a warmer, less " trebly " tone which suited the instrument well for jazz and blues.

Such suggestions, like a faster volume antenna, wider musical range, and control over the instrument's tone color were incorporated by the inventor in later versions.

Unlike a conventional guitar, the strings are not pressed to a fret when sounding a note ; rather, the player holds a metal slide called steel ( or tone bar ) in the left hand, which is moved along the strings to change the instrument's pitch while the right hand plucks or picks the strings.

However, on the clarinet the notes from ( written ) G4 or A4 to B4 sometimes are regarded as a separate " throat register ", even though both they and the notes from F4 down are produced using the instrument's lowest normal mode ; the timbre of the throat notes differs, and the throat register's fingerings also are distinctive, using special keys and not the standard tone holes used for other notes.

However, other variables may affect an instrument's tone colors ( e. g., mouthpiece design and physical characteristics of the player ).

An unamplified acoustic bass ' tone is limited by the frequency responsiveness of the instrument's hollow body, which means that the very low pitches may not be as loud as the higher pitches.

In the classical literature, the alto flute is particularly associated with the scores of Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel, both of whom used the instrument's distinctive tone color in a variety of scores.

According to an interview conducted by the website RocketBaby. net, Nakano was composing music focusing on an instrument's tone and acoustics until 1995, while after that time, he slowly moved his focus toward studying the harmony and melody important to music as a whole.

For example, the Vega Tu-ba-Phone, first appearing in 1909, featured a perforated metal tone ring-a ring-shaped, square-sectioned metal tube that sat between the instrument's wooden rim and calfskin head-that gave it a volume and tone still admired by many banjo players.

Numerically, this value depends on the time until the expiration date and the volatility of the underlying instrument's price.

The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood ( although electric violins may not be made of wood at all, since their sound may not be dependent on specific acoustic characteristics of the instrument's construction ), and it is usually strung with gut, nylon or other synthetic, or steel strings.

Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra have an important place in the instrument's repertoire.

The note written as C sounds as the note of the instrument's transposition — on an E alto saxophone, that note sounds as a concert E, on an A clarinet, that note sounds as a concert A.

Keyboards have been a component of the band's sound since Seventeen Seconds, and their importance increased with the instrument's extensive use on Disintegration.

* 423. 1 – the player's lips are the only means of changing the instrument's pitch ( that is, there are no valves as on a bugle )

Klezmer instrument choices were based, by necessity, on an instrument's portability.

Examples include handheld devices like the EBow, built-in guitar pickups that increase the instrument's sonic sustain, string drivers mounted on a stand such as the Guitar Resonator, and sonic transducers mounted on the head of a guitar.

To determine if a high-end stereo or musical instrument meets their needs, clients typically take the product out on loan for several weeks, so that they can test the equipment or instrument's response to different types of music and listening environments.

This reputation played no small part in discouraging composers outside of the British brass band from writing for the tenor horn, and certainly had an adverse effect on the instrument's popularity outside the UK.

The scale takes into account the instrument's distance from the epicenter, or the point on the ground that is directly above the earthquake's origin.

Since Lesh had never played bass, it meant that to a great extent he learned " on the job ", yet it also meant he had no preconceived attitudes about the instrument's traditional " rhythm section " role.

He played with equal facility on both, but switched from one to the other to exploit each instrument's tonal qualities.

Music for transposing instruments is transposed into different keys from that of non-transposing instruments — for example, playing a written C on a B clarinet or trumpet produces a non-transposing instrument's B.

The name stems from the instrument's reliance on pre-recorded optical soundtracks to reproduce sound.

The size of the mouth ( length, width and depth ) is usually in proportion to the instrument's bore, depending on the model of instrument and specifically which original instrument is being copied ( in the cases of recorders ).

Embouchure on fipple flutes is centered around the idea of focusing the air inside the instrument's windway and bore alike, following the shape of the bore.

The plucked strings are on the left ; they were reachable by the player's thumb from the rear, where the back of the instrument's neck was left open.

The musical note C4 ( corresponding to middle C on the piano ) would be in that instrument's first register, whereas C5 ( one octave higher ) would be in its second register.