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.

* In 1805, Philipp Bozzini made the first attempt to observe inside the living human body using a tube he named Lichtleiter ( light-guiding instrument ) to examine the urinary tract, the rectum, and the pharynx.

A young harmonicist named Marion " Little Walter " Jacobs revolutionized the instrument by playing the harmonica with a microphone ( typically a " Bullet " microphone marketed for use by radio taxi dispatchers cupped in his hands with the harmonica, giving it a " punchy " mid-range sound that can be heard above radio static, or an electric guitar ).

* International Society of Automation, a professional organization for instrument engineers, formerly named the Instrument Society of America

He then worked for six years for an instrument maker named Öllers & Co. who mainly created telegraph equipment.

Its name is Latin for the eighth part of a circle, but it is named after the octant, a navigational instrument.

Later, with Nicolas Boileau and François de Malherbe, rhetoric is the instrument of the clarity of the comment and speech ; the literature that ensues from it is named " Sublime ".

He named his instrument the stethoscope, from stethos ( chest ), and skopos ( examination ).

The instrument was invented by a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeevich Termen ( known in the West as Léon Theremin ) in October 1920 after the outbreak of the Russian civil war.

Macadie invented an instrument which could measure amperes ( amps ), volts and ohms, so the multifunctional meter was then named Avometer.

One episode of the first season of Mission Impossible 1966 named " OLD MAN OUT " ( parts 1 and 2 ) makes use of a calliope as a musical instrument and also as a timing cue to the development of the story.

Dalton's early life was highly influenced by a prominent Eaglesfield Quaker named Elihu Robinson, a competent meteorologist and instrument maker, who got him interested in problems of mathematics and meteorology.

The unit is named after Blaise Pascal, the eminent French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher noted for his experiments with a barometer, an instrument to measure air pressure.

* Guqin ( 古琴 ), formerly named qin, Chinese stringed musical instrument from around 2500 BC

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Indian classical music, which is believed to have been derived from the ancient Indian instrument Veena and modified by a Mughal court musician to conform with the tastes of his Persian patrons and named after a Persian instrument called the setar ( meaning " three strings ").

It was named after the French bandmaster Pierre-Auguste Sarrus ( 1813 – 1876 ) who is credited with the concept of the instrument, though it is not clear whether Sarrus benefited financially from this association.

According to legend, it was on such an instrument that the kazoo, invented in the 19th century by an African American named Alabama Vest in Macon, Georgia, United States, is based.

The bronze instrument now known as the lur is most probably unrelated to the wooden lur, and has been named by 19th century archaeologists, after the 13th century wooden lurs mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.

Presumably, he is named for the instrument that he plays.

His passion for music was crowned by the construction of quite an extraordinary musical instrument he named " Denis d ' or ", with the French " Denis " etymologically going back to " Dionysus ", whose Czech counterpart is " Diviš " — hence the name.

* August 15-Léon Theremin, Russian inventor of the musical instrument named after him ( d. 1993 )

A musical instrument, the Tula accordion, is named for the city, which is a center of manufacture for such instruments sold throughout Russia and the world.

The Epic of Sundiata, a story of the formation of the Mali Empire, tells that a griot named Bala Faséké Kouyate convinced Sosso king Sumanguru Kante to employ him after sneaking into Sumanguru's palace and playing the sacred instrument.