The AEA membership also includes manufacturers of avionics equipment, instrument repair facilities, instrument manufacturers, airframe manufacturers, test equipment manufacturers, major distributors, engineers and educational institutions.

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit (" drum set " or " trap set ", including but not limited to cymbals ) and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and / or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a wide assortment of musical genres.

This category includes the keyboard instrument the harpsichord, which formerly used feather quills ( now plastic plectra ) to pluck the strings.

The fluid playing of Chicago musician Phil Upchurch on his You Can't Sit Down LP, which includes a memorable bass solo, is cited by Jones as being his inspiration to take up the instrument.

" The instrument of this power is the military, which includes the Imperial Stormtroopers, a massive fleet of starships, and at its zenith the Death Star, a moon-sized superweapon capable of destroying planets.

The proposed instrument package for the series initially included: the Advanced Baseline Imager ( ABI ); the Hyperspectral Environmental Suite ( HES ); the Space Environment In-Situ Suite ( SEISS ), which includes two Magnetospheric Particle Sensors ( MPS-HI and MPS-LO ), an Energetic Heavy Ion Sensor ( EHIS ), and a Solar and Galactic Proton Sensor ( SGPS ); the Solar Imaging Suite ( SIS ), which includes the Solar Ultraviolet Imager ( SUVI ), the Solar X-Ray Sensor ( XRS ), and the Extreme Ultraviolet Sensor ( EUVS ); the Geostationary Lightning Mapper ( GLM ); and the Magnetometer.

The MIDI Manufacturers Association have since embraced the RIFF-based MIDI file format, and used it as the basis of an " extended midifile " that also includes instrument data in " DLS " format, embedded within the same. RMI file.

An ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument, for which Messiaen included a part in several of his compositions: the orchestra for his opera Saint François d ' Assise includes three of them

In 1966, with his album Drums Unlimited ( which includes several tracks that are entirely drums solos ) he demonstrated that drums can be a solo instrument able to play theme, variations, rhythmically cohesive phrases.

This includes one or more bitmap images of the panel, instrument gauge files, and sometimes its own sounds.

The schematic of an HPLC instrument typically includes a sampler by which the sample mixture is injected into the HPLC, one or more mechanical pumps for pushing liquid through a tubing system, a separation column, a digital analyte detector ( e. g. a UV / Vis, or a photodiode array ( PDA )) for qualitative or quantitative analysis of the separation, and a digital microprocessor for controlling the HPLC components ( and user software ).

Zimbabwean music includes folk and pop styles, much of it based on the well-known instrument the mbira which is also popular in many other African countries.

The IEEE 488. 2 specification includes the Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation ( SCPI ), which define specific commands that each instrument class must obey.

Every LXI-compliant instrument includes an Interchangeable Virtual Instrument ( IVI ) driver to simplify communication with non-LXI instruments, so LXI-compliant devices can communicate with devices that are not themselves LXI compliant ( i. e., instruments that employ GPIB, VXI, PXI, etc .).

The decoration of the covers includes three pigments filling lines engraved with a sharp pointed instrument, which now appear as two shades of yellow, one bright and the other pale, and a dark colour that now appears as blue-grey, but was recorded as blue in the earliest descriptions.

The instrument often includes a weak negative lens, creating a virtual image of the scene at about the same distance as the drawing surface, so that both can be viewed in good focus simultaneously.

Percy Daniel & Co is a firm of organ builders, whose work includes the instrument in Brentwood Cathedral.

* Garageband includes a standard keyboard instrument and " Smart Keyboard " instrument.

Soundtrack Pro was a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc. featured in Logic Studio, which includes a collection of just over 5000 royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects.

Renoise includes many features such as an arranging tool called the " pattern matrix ", full cross track modulation routing, built-in effects including a signal follower metadevice that allows sidechain functionality, automatic softsynth-to-sample instrument rendering and improved midi mapping.

The Association of Postgraduate Physician Assistant Programs was formed in 1988 as an instrument in the establishment of educational standards for postgraduate PA programs and currently includes 50 member programs.

The rediscovery of the Nepōhualtzintzin was due to the Mexican engineer David Esparza Hidalgo, who in his wanderings throughout Mexico found diverse engravings and paintings of this instrument and reconstructed several of them made in gold, jade, encrustations of shell, etc.

By comparing the form of several yupanas, researchers found that calculations were based using the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and powers of 10, 20 and 40 as place values for the different fields in the instrument.

Simpler forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in Colonial America, adapted from several African instruments of similar design.

There are several factors involved in producing different pitches on a brass instrument: One is alteration of the player's lip tension ( or " embouchure "), and another is air flow.

As several instrument builders made improvements to both instruments, they started to look and sound more alike.

The acceptance of artificial methods of birth control is then claimed to result in several negative consequences, among them a " general lowering of moral standards " resulting from sex without consequences, and the danger that men may reduce women " to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of own desires "; finally, abuse of power by public authorities, and a false sense of autonomy.

The 1799 Resolutions used the term " nullification ", which had been deleted from Jefferson's draft of the 1798 Resolutions, resolving: " That the several states who formed Constitution, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and, That a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.

Pressure range, sensitivity, dynamic response and cost all vary by several orders of magnitude from one instrument design to the next.

Having constructed saxophones in several sizes in the early 1840s, Sax applied for, and received, a 15-year patent for the instrument on June 28, 1846.

There are several types of trumpet ; the most common is a transposing instrument pitched in B with a tubing length of about 148 cm.

The marching brass bass, or sousaphone, a modified helicon, was created by J. W. Pepper – a Philadelphia instrument maker who created the instrument in 1893 at Sousa ’ s request using several of his suggestions in its design.

The instrument was developed in the 18th century by several researchers, among them Abraham Bennet and Alessandro Volta.

A multimeter or a multitester, also known as a VOM ( Volt-Ohm meter ), is an electronic measuring instrument that combines several measurement functions in one unit.

The instrument became popular in several musical traditions namely ; English, Scottish, Irish and American traditional music.

Gaining popularity as a folk instrument in the early 19th century in the Celtic music revivals, penny whistles now play an integral part of several folk traditions.

Such a model consists of ( possibly simplified ) laws of physics that govern the sound production, and will typically have several parameters, some of which are constants that describe the physical materials and dimensions of the instrument, while others are time-dependent functions that describe the player's interaction with it, such as plucking a string, or covering toneholes.

To shorten these several distillations, which were long and troublesome, a chemical instrument was invented that reduced them to a single distillation.

Weber's orchestration has also been highly praised and emulated by later generations of composers – Berlioz referred to him several times in his Treatise on Instrumentation while Debussy remarked that the sound of the Weber orchestra was obtained through the scrutiny of the soul of each instrument.

The second device is the unit under test, test instrument, or any of several other names for the device being calibrated.

But, depending on the organization, the majority of the devices that need calibration can have several ranges and many functionalities in a single instrument.

As the market for vibraphones was proven, first as a vaudeville novelty instrument and then as a jazz instrument, several other manufacturers stepped in to supply the demand.

These players are not restricted to one particular woodwind instrument group, but play (" double on ") several different instruments.

Electroluminescent automotive instrument panel backlighting, with each gauge pointer also an individual light source, entered production on 1960 Chrysler and Imperial passenger cars, and was continued successfully on several Chrysler vehicles through 1967.