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.

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.

The didgeridoo was introduced to the Kimberlies almost a century ago but it is only in the last decade that Aboriginal men have shown adverse reactions to women playing the instrument and prohibitions are especially evident in the South East of Australia.

Professional models have three top-action valves, played with the first three fingers of the right hand, plus a " compensating " fourth valve, generally found midway down the right side of the instrument, played with the left index finger ; such an instrument is shown in the above picture.

Each of the figures are labeled and shown either drinking, writing, or playing a musical instrument.

Since the Renaissance she is often shown with a wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre, or a small kithara, a musical instrument that Apollo or she herself invented.

According to his memoirs, it was " shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard .... No case was available -- it was such a large instrument 17 1 / 8 inches -- so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.

It was however shown by Breandán Breathnach that it would be difficult to explain the Anglicization of the word uillin into ' woollen ' before the 16th century ( when the instrument did not exist as such ) and then its adaptation as ' union ' two centuries later.

Vertical guidance, shown on the instrument by the glideslope indicator, aids the pilot in reaching the runway at the proper touchdown point.

A general schematic of the primary components of a DMA instrument is shown in figure 3.

Most aircraft exhibit a small difference between the airspeed actually shown on the instrument ( indicated airspeed, or IAS ) and the speed the instrument should theoretically show ( calibrated airspeed or CAS ).

A Waters GPC instrument is shown to the left.

Anemia is often first shown by routine blood tests, which generally include a complete blood count ( CBC ) which is performed by an instrument which gives an output as a series of index numbers.

The winding drums and Cooke-Wheatstone “ needle ” telegraph instrument ( left foreground ) are shown.

In January 2005 the Hubble Heritage Project constructed a 11477x7965 pixel composite image ( shown in the info box above ) of M51 using Hubble's ACS instrument.

The FAA approach plate for this instrument approach is shown in Appendix B.

André Breton ( by way of Guy Mangeot ) hailed the method, saying that Dalí's paranoiac-critical method was an " instrument of primary importance " and that it " has immediately shown itself capable of being applied equally to painting, poetry, the cinema, the construction of typical Surrealist objects, fashion, sculpture, the history of art, and even, if necessary, all manner of exegesis.

The instrument that is now identified with Davis is shown in Figure 3.

Calibrated airspeed ( CAS ) is the speed shown by a conventional airspeed indicator after correction for instrument error and position error.

* As of March 2005, it was reported that measurements by the Solar Wind Anisotropies ( SWAN ) instrument onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ) have shown that the heliosphere, the solar wind-filled volume which prevents the Solar System from becoming embedded in the local ( ambient ) interstellar medium, is not axisymmetrical, but is distorted, very likely under the effect of the local galactic magnetic field.

Rollins had shown an interest in smaller ensembles as early as 1955 ; in Paradox, he exchanged four-measure phrases with drummer Max Roach, with no other instrument taking part.

A musician playing an instrument very similar to a suona is shown on a drawing on a Silk Road religious monument in western Xinjiang province dated to the 3rd to 5th centuries, and depictions dating to this period found in Shandong and other regions of northern China depict it being played in military processions, sometimes on horseback.

Traditional ( electromechanical ) displays were equipped with synchro mechanisms which would transmit, to an instrument comparator, the pitch, roll and heading that were actually being shown on the Captain's and First Officer's instruments.

In the vehicle instrument display, between the speedometer and tachometer, the available shift-lever positions are shown, the current position of the shift-lever is highlighted ( emboldened ), and the current gear ratio in use is also displayed as a number.