Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section.

The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, in a string orchestra, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra.

These parts are usually given to the cello section because it is a smaller instrument and are typically tuned together.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

The clearance can also specify a departure procedure ( DP ), or standard instrument departure ( SID ) that should be followed unless " NO DP " is specified in the notes section of the filed flight plan.

During the late 1930s and through the 1940s — the heyday of big band jazz and swing music — the guitar was an important rhythm section instrument.

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.

Most drummers of this particular designation work within the context of a larger contingent ( aka rhythm section ) that may also include, keyboard ( a percussion instrument ) and / or guitar, auxiliary percussion ( often of non western origin ) and bass ( bass viol or electric ).

It has been incorrectly noted that the tuba is a conical brass instrument and the sousaphone is a cylindrical brass instrument ; actually both instruments are semi-conical — no valved brass instrument can be entirely conical, since the middle section with the valves must be cylindrical.

The rhythm section of a jazz band consists of the percussion, double bass or bass guitar, and usually at least one instrument capable of playing chords, such as a piano, guitar, Hammond organ or vibes ; most will usually have more than one of these.

The noisy section abutted the RTG ; the quiet section housed the instrument electronics.

The primary significance of the EC Act 1972 is that ( apart from being the instrument whereby the UK was able to accede to the European Union ( or ' European Communities ' as then termed ) it enables under section 2 ( 2 ) for Government ministers to lay regulations before Parliament to implement required changes to UK law ( for example, Decisions of the European Court of Justice and EU Directives ).

The instrument section at the front end of the satellite and the empty scaled-down fourth-stage rocket casing orbited as a single unit, spinning around its long axis at 750 revolutions per minute.

The external skin of the instrument section was painted in alternate strips of white and dark green to provide passive temperature control of the satellite.

The webbed base plate of the shell rested on a ball bearing shaft mounted on the first-stage instrument section.

At first-stage burnout, explosive bolts fired and springs separated the instrument section from the first-stage tankage.

Turntablism embodies the art of cutting, beat juggling, scratching, needle drops, phase shifting, back spinning, and more to perform the transitions and overdubs of samples in a more creative manner ( although turntablism is often considered a use of the turntable as a musical instrument rather than a tool for blending recorded music ).

The first known use of such a top as an instrument came in 1743, when John Serson invented the " Whirling speculum " ( or Serson's Speculum ), a spinning top that was used as a level, to locate the horizon in foggy or misty conditions.

* Contortionists might manipulate props during their performance, for instance spinning hula hoops or juggling rings, balancing towers of wine glasses, or playing a musical instrument.

Like an acoustic instrument, a Leslie's tone is uniquely defined by its cabinet design and construction, the amp and speakers used, and the motors — not merely by the spinning of rotors.

Pen spinning ( also known as contact juggling, pen twirling, pen mawashi and pen tricks ) is a form of object manipulation that involves the deft manipulation of a writing instrument with one's hands.

The instrument section at the front end of the satellite and the empty scaled-down fourth-stage rocket casing orbited as a single unit, spinning around its long axis at 750 revolutions per minute.

They then advance to spinning, aerobatics, instrument flying, formation flying and low level navigation.

At birth, newborn boys are given a machete by their fathers, and girls receive a metate and malacate ( the stone instrument used to grind maize and the spinning whorl ) from their mothers, representing their future economic roles.

Trans., 1788, p. 403 ) Nicholson later described a " spinning condenser " apparatus, as a better instrument for measurements.

Industries developed because of it favorable position and transport links: crafts, spinning, weaving, embroidery working with mother-of-pearl and musical instrument making.

Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.

When the apex of the vertical flight occurred after a coasting flight of about 247 seconds, a radio signal from the ground ignited the eleven-rocket cluster of the second stage, separating the tub from the instrument section.

When values of temperature derived with this instrument were compared with the accepted values associated with liquid helium-4 vapor pressures, differences of about 10 and 7 millidegrees respectively were found.

By comparing the form of several yupanas, researchers found that calculations were based using the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and powers of 10, 20 and 40 as place values for the different fields in the instrument.

In his instrument, temperatures were indicated by the height at which a column of mercury was sustained by a certain mass of air, the volume, or " spring ", of which varied with the heat to which it was exposed.

The instrument was set up in November 1725, and observations on γ Draconis were made on the 3rd, 5th, 11th, and 12 December.

Sensitivity of the instrument was increased by using additional turns of wire to multiply the effect – the instruments were called " multipliers ".

Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

Simpler forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in Colonial America, adapted from several African instruments of similar design.

* Keyed or Fingered brass instruments used holes along the body of the instrument, which were covered by fingers or by finger-operated pads ( keys ) in a similar way to a woodwind instrument.

As a result, the national militia of Cuba, established by the Constitution and a potential instrument for liberal agitation, was dissolved, a permanent executive military commission under the orders of the governor was created, newspapers were closed, elected provincial representatives were removed and other liberties suppressed.

* Quick-Scan – Cessna introduced a new instrument panel layout in the 1960s and this buzzword was to indicate Cessna ’ s panels were ahead of the competition.

It is an “ instrument of wholesale destruction, dependency and systematic exploitation producing distorted economies, socio-psychological disorientation, massive poverty and neocolonial dependency .” According to some Marxist historians, in all of the colonial countries ruled by Western European countries “ the natives were robbed of more than half their natural span of life by undernourishment ”.

Early clavichords frequently had many notes played on each string, even going so far as the keyed monochord — an instrument with only one string — though most clavichords were triple-or double-fretted.

Sir Charles Wheatstone discovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the construction of a cumbersome but effective instrument, in which the binocular pictures were made to combine by means of mirrors.

Until the 1990s, child-sized double basses were not widely available, and the large size of the bass meant that children were not able to start playing the instrument until their hand size and height would allow them to play a 3 / 4-size model ( the most commonly available size ).

The PEPE instrument reported that the comet's fields were offset from the nucleus.

His inventions were based on the printing mechanism from Hughes ' instrument, a distributor invented by Bernard Meyer during 1871, and the five-unit code devised by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber.

Electric guitars were originally designed by guitar makers and instrument manufacturers.

Modern dimensions of the classical instrument were established by the Spaniard Antonio de Torres Jurado ( 1817 – 1892 ).

The first historical uses of the Geiger principle were for the detection of alpha and beta particles, and the instrument is still used for this purpose today.

The importance of the method of setting the strings in vibration by means of hammers, and its bearing on the acoustics of the instrument, were recognized only when the invention of the pianoforte had become a matter of history.

This was not the percussion instrument that we call triangle today ; rather, it was a name for octave-pitched spinets, which were triangular in shape.