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.

Studio percussion legend Emil Richards acquired the taiko drums from a prop house in the 1980s, for his giant instrument collection, the Emil Richards Collection.

Besides numerous articles on theological and inter-religious topics, he published in 1973 ( with Josef Neuner ) a collection of Church documents, ' The Christian Faith ', that went into seven editions over 20 years: an invaluable instrument of theological learning for generations of students of Catholicism.

Patch librarians have the specialized function of organizing the sounds in a collection of equipment, and allow transmission of entire banks of sounds between an instrument and a computer.

He added it to his giant instrument collection, the Emil Richards Collection.

Dr. Joseph H. Howard, owner of the largest collection of drums and ancillary folk instruments in the Americas, often stated it is " the instrument most typical of Africa.

The most important musical instrument in the collection is a violin by Antonio Stradivari dated 1699.

He was the curator of the musical instrument collection of the conservatoire in Brussels, and for the 1888 catalogue of the collection divided instruments into four groups: strings, winds, drums, and other percussion.

The zydeco rubboard, designed specifically for the genre solely as a percussion instrument, is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

Included in the collection is the world's oldest surviving keyboard instrument.

Specifically, a 1716 inventory of the musical instrument collection is signed " Bartolommeo Cristofori Custode ", indicating that Cristofori had been given the title of custodian of the collection.

A detailed contemporary collection of constructions for the determination of lengths from a distance using this instrument is known, the Dioptra of Hero of Alexandria ( c. 10 – 70 AD ), which survived in Arabic translation ; but the knowledge became lost in Europe.

Judged by an absolute rather than a contemporary standard, there is much to criticise in the collection of the danegeld by the early 12th century: it was based on ancient assessments of land productivity, and there were numerous privileged reductions or exemptions, granted as marks of favour that served to cast those left paying it in an " unfavoured " light: " Exemptions were very much a matter of royal favour, and were adjusted to meet changing circumstances ... in this way danegeld was a more flexible instrument of taxation than most historians have been prepared to allow.

Data collection is broadly similar regardless of the particular sensing instrument.

Studio percussionist Emil Richards had a set of piccolo woodblocks in his instrument collection, which were chromatically tuned in two octaves, from C6-C8.

In qualitative research, the researcher is the primary data collection instrument.

* April 1-The Genesis probe closes and seals its particle collection instrument, and begins to return to Earth.

Aside from the first ( Annunciation ) and last works ( Passacaglia, for solo violin ) of this collection, where in the instrument is set to the common G-D-A-E tuning, the violin for each sonata is tuned to a different array of pitches.

New features included VSTi ( virtual instrument ) support, enhanced spectral editing, a redesigned multi-track interface, new effects, and a collection of royalty-free loops.

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.

" Signature " covers the distinctive features of phenomena, equipment, or objects as they are sensed by the collection instrument ( s ).

The Organon ( Greek: όργανον meaning instrument, tool, organ ) is the standard collection of Aristotle's six works on logic.

Studio percussion legend Emil Richards had a Giant Flexatone in his renowned instrument collection, which he bought in the 1970s.

The story of the Heike was compiled from a collection of oral stories recited by traveling monks who chanted to the accompaniment of the biwa, an instrument reminiscent of the lute.