He is no dextrous-fingered college boy but rather a dedicated, humble, and bashful apostle of this instrument.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

The time is now ripe, indeed overdue, for the vigorous development of its non-military potentialities, for its development as an instrument of Atlantic community.

Conceived as an organ of economic cooperation, there is no reason why O.E.C.D. cannot evolve into a broader instrument of union if its members so desire.

Only when a concert of nations rests on the positive foundations of shared goals and values is it likely to form a viable instrument of long-range policy.

The transducer is a null-type instrument and employs a stretched diaphragm, 0.001 in. thick and 1 in. in diameter.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

There is much research evidence to validate the use of the instrument in differentiating individuals who are likely to manifest anxiety in varying degrees.

The instrument is shown in Fig. 1 and consists essentially of a hard, sharp, tungsten carbide knife which is pushed along the substrate to remove the coating.

Since the removal force is a function of coating thickness, a differential transformer pickup has been incorporated into the instrument to accurately measure film thickness.

If a wedge-shaped coating of increasing thickness is removed from a substrate by an instrument like the Hesiometer with a knife of constant rake angle, a number of removal mechanisms are often observed which depend upon the thickness of the coating.

A reflectance-measuring instrument may be desirable to measure cleaning, whereas Soxhlet extraction is necessary to measure grease removal.

High-gain, photoelectronic image intensification is applied under conditions of low incident light levels whenever the integration time required by a sensor or recording instrument exceeds the limits of practicability.

Since interviewing is the basic therapeutic and diagnostic instrument of modern psychiatry, the recording of interviews for playbacks and study has been a boost of Redstone proportions in new research and training.

If the voice is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful instrument, controlled and flexible.

Another variation is that Apollo played his instrument ( the lyre ) upside down.

In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.

Using visual imagery of a soroban, one can arrive at the answer in the same time as, or even faster than, is possible with a physical instrument.

The Spectrogram produced by such an instrument is a graphical display of the time varying pressure level and frequency profiles which give a specific acoustic signal its defining character.

A cup-shaped mouthpiece carved out of a block of hard wood is added and the instrument is complete.

They also give information which will aid in the design of a more satisfactory instrument for the measurement of the normal pressures.

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.

The harp is also a stringed instrument, but is not a member of or homogenous with the violin family and is not considered part of the string choir.

This instrument can respond to both alternating and direct current and also indicated true RMS for AC.

Even though the saxophone is classified as a woodwind instrument and the harmonica is a free reed aerophone, both are also often made from brass.

The bass guitar ( also called electric bass, or simply bass ; ) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking.

It can also be tuned to E-A-D, like its cousin, the domra, to make it easier for those trained on the domra to play the instrument, and still have a balalaika sound.

He also composed a body of concert pieces for the instrument.

The trombone family's ancestor, the sackbut, and the folk instrument bazooka are also in the slide family.

The classical guitar ( also called classic guitar, Spanish guitar, nylon-string guitar or concert guitar ) is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones.

Björk also made extensive use of and even played the instrument herself on the song " My Juvenile " of her 2007 album Volta.

The didgeridoo ( also known as a didjeridu or didge ) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1, 500 years ago and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.

The didgeridoo also became a role playing instrument in the experimental and avant-garde music scene.

It has also been an instrument used for the fusion of tribal rhythms with a black metal sound, a music project called Naakhum that used the spirituality of the Aboriginal people and many others as an approach.

It is also referred to as a " kane " or " chanchiki ," a name that comes from the kuchi shoga specific to this instrument.

* Appalachian dulcimer, a fretted, plucked musical instrument which is also referred to as a " mountain dulcimer ", " lap dulcimer ", " fretted dulcimer ", or " hog fiddle "

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, contrabass, bass viol, stand-up bass or bull fiddle, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2 ( see standard tuning ).

In folk and bluegrass music, the instrument is also referred to as a bass fiddle or bass violin ( or more rarely as doghouse bass or bull fiddle ).

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.

The string bass is the most commonly used bass instrument in bluegrass music and is almost always plucked, though some modern bluegrass bassists have also used a bow.

Many other rockabilly bands like El Rio Trio ( from the Netherlands ) also use this instrument in their work.

In 1897 Thaddeus Cahill patented an instrument called the Telharmonium ( or Teleharmonium, also known as the Dynamaphone ).

The See of Rome, as the sole unbroken line of apostolic authority, descending from St. Peter ( the " prince and head of the apostles "), is a visible sign and instrument of communion among the college of bishops and therefore also of the local churches around the world.