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.

" " Island Girl " by Elton John and " Moonlight Feels Right " by Starbuck also prominently feature the instrument.

The instrument is used prominently in the introduction to the 1928 recording by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five of " Basin Street Blues ".

The instrument also features prominently in the game of " Swanee-Kazoo " in the long-running British radio panel game, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

A rebec featured prominently in one of Ellis Peters ' ( 12th century ) Brother Cadfael stories: Liliwin, the title character of The Sanctuary Sparrow, earned his living by playing that instrument.

AK-Momo uses this instrument prominently on Return to N. Y.

An electronic musical instrument called Reactable was displayed prominently.

Accomplished artists specializing in mandocello performance in 21st century America are relatively few in number, and only a modest number of contemporary recordings prominently feature the instrument.

Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, whose mature style is grounded on microtonal oscillations of unisons, extensively explored the textural effects of interference beats, particularly in his late works such as the violin solos Xnoybis ( 1964 ) and L ' âme ailée / L ' âme ouverte ( 1973 ), which feature them prominently ( note that Scelsi treated and notated each string of the instrument as a separate part, so that his violin solos are effectively quartets of one-strings, where different strings of the violin may be simultaneously playing the same note with microtonal shifts, so that the interference patterns are generated ).

He was a clarinetist who always placed his instrument prominently in his band, and is largely responsible for popularizing the instrument in brass bands.

The 1935 sales catalog for Tutmarc's electronic musical instrument company, Audiovox, featured his " Model 736 Bass Fiddle ", a four-stringed, solid-bodied, fretted electric bass instrument with a 30½-inch scale length.

The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, Stratocaster, and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup.

For both, the instrument featured in the earlier period of their careers and was abandoned once they had shifted their efforts to the piano.

It was not until the large-scale emergence of small combo jazz in the post-WWII period that the guitar took as a versatile instrument, which was used both in the rhythm section and as a featured melodic instrument and solo improviser.

Other American-made variants include the mandolinetto or Howe-Orme guitar-shaped mandolin ( manufactured by the Elias Howe Company between 1897 and roughly 1920 ), which featured a cylindrical bulge along the top from fingerboard end to tailpiece ; the Army-Navy style with a flat back and top ; and the Vega mando-lute ( more commonly called a cylinder-back mandolin manufactured by the Vega Company between 1913 and roughly 1927 ), which had a similar longitudinal bulge but on the back rather than the front of the instrument.

They featured an octave range larger than the earlier fortepiano instrument, adding around 30 more keys to the instrument.

Although synthesizers were still used in many songs, the instrument was no longer featured as the centrepiece of Rush's compositions.

A number of popular recordings featured " prepared pianos ," playing rags on pianos with tacks on the hammers and the instrument deliberately somewhat out of tune, supposedly to simulate the sound of a piano in an old honky tonk.

Wakeman featured playing this instrument, to varying degrees, on the David Bowie track " Space Oddity ", the Yes albums Fragile, Close to the Edge and Tales From Topographic Oceans, as well as the solo albums The Six Wives of Henry VIII and White Rock.

Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became known in the western world through the work of Ravi Shankar beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s after The Kinks ' top 10 single " See My Friends " featured a low tuned drone guitar which was widely mistaken to be the instrument.

Under their exteriors, however, these cars featured Chevrolet frames, engines, interiors ( except for instrument panels which were Pontiac-based ), and even dimensions.

Though primarily featured in classical music, the cor anglais has also been used by a few musicians as a jazz instrument ; most prominent among these are Paul McCandless, Jean-Luc Fillon, Sonny Simmons, and Vinny Golia ( see also Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres ).

Ray Thomas's flute had been in evidence earlier (" I've Got A Dream ") on their debut album, however it became a far more featured instrument from this point onwards as they started incorporating distinct psychedelic influences, which was later developed in a concept album revolving around an archetypal day in the life of everyman.

The event was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas and featured many of the legends of various musical genres who play guitar as their primary instrument.

Zawinul's " Unknown Soldier " featured performances by jazz / classical trumpet veteran Wilmer Wise and singers Yolande Bavan, Joshie Armstrong and Chapman Roberts ( as well as English horn contributed by Andrew White III, a cross-disciplinary multi-instrumentalist who was not only the oboist for the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra but also played bass guitar for both Stevie Wonder and The Fifth Dimension ) The album also featured Zawinul's first use of a synthesizer ( an instrument with which he would become synonymous within jazz ) and of sound effects.

He became the first jazz pianist to double on celeste ( starting in 1936 ) and was featured on that instrument on a Blue Note quartet date with Edmond Hall and Charlie Christian.

Slade's next album, Rogues Gallery featured a strong use of synthesizers, which were a popular instrument in the latter half of the 1980s as did the band's final album You Boyz Make Big Noize, although this album had a slightly grittier hard rock sound.

Top session player Tony Levin was also an early user, and was playing the instrument from the mid-1970s: he would bring it to a high profile on sessions and tours with Peter Gabriel and featured it in his work as a member of King Crimson from 1981 onwards.

Shank's alto is the featured instrument.

However, it is less often featured as a solo instrument.