The strings are paired in courses as in a modern 12-string guitar, but they only have four or five courses of strings rather than six.

The paired strings are joined at opposite ends of freely moving short levers so that while playing, manually tensioning one of the strings raises the pitch of its linked pair.

Sometimes it carried the Italian equivalent, notturno, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's quadraphonic Notturno in D, K. 286, written for four lightly echoing separated ensembles of paired horns with strings, and his Serenata Notturna, K. 239.

A second tuning, reported by William Bingley ( A Tour Round North Wales ; London: 1800 ), features the drones tuned in octaves, with the strings over the fingerboard tuned in paired fifths rather than seconds.

* Regular tunings of stringed instruments, tunings with equal intervals between the paired notes of successive open strings.

The disadvantage of the paired design is that it generally limits the spinet to a single choir of strings, at eight-foot pitch.

A simple example of such a language is the complement of the halting language ; that is the language consisting of all Turing machines paired with input strings where the Turing machines do not halt on their input.

Vihuela is a name given to two different guitar-like string instruments: one from 15th and 16th century Spain, usually with 12 paired strings, and the other, the Mexican vihuela, from 19th century Mexico with five strings and typically played in Mariachi bands.

Unlike modern guitars, which often use steel and bronze strings, vihuela were gut strung, and usually in paired courses.

The aşıks were essentially minstrels who travelled through Anatolia performing their songs on the bağlama, a mandolin-like instrument whose paired strings are considered to have a symbolic religious significance in Alevi / Bektashi culture.

The aşıks were essentially minstrels who travelled through Anatolia performing their songs on the bağlama, a mandolin-like instrument whose paired strings are considered to have a symbolic religious significance in Alevi / Bektashi culture.

He teamed with female vocalist Helen Forrest for many hit duets during World War Two, including " Together ," " I'll Buy That Dream ," and " Long Ago and far Away "; he sang with Judy Garland on two Decca recordings of songs from his film " The Shocking Miss Pilgrim " with Betty Grable ; and he paired repeatedly with the very famous Andrews Sisters ( Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne ) on a dozen or so Decca collaborations, including the Billboard hit " Teresa ," " Great Day ," " My Sin ," and a masterful 1952 rendering of the dramatic ballad " Here in My Heart ," backed by the sisters and Nelson Riddle's lush strings.

As an oud player, he was a major innovator, introducing left-hand pizzicato, bidirectional picking ( the tradition had been to use the pick only on the downstroke ), double stops, and novel tunings ( sometimes using open tunings or tuning the paired strings in octaves instead of to a single note ).

All took their name and some characteristics from the Persian tanbur but also resemble the mandolin, in that its strings are plucked and often paired.

It has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in 5ths like a mandolin, but is larger, and tuned CC-GG-dd-aa ( low to high in pitch ).

The Unicode standard also differentiates between these abstract characters and coded characters or encoded characters that have been paired with numeric codes that facilitate their representation in computers.

* Paired-end tags, a DNA technique for obtaining short paired sequences for high-throughput sequencing

It has been reported that NTC will device Multiple Round / Ascending auction technique for 3 blocks of 10 MHz paired and one block of 15 MHz paired.

Prior to this, training in Kenjutsu had consisted mainly of basic technique practice and paired kata, using solid wooden practice swords ( bokutō ), or live blades.

Program synthesis is a special form of automatic programming that is most often paired with a technique for formal verification.

A significant limitation of this technique is that light must bounce with nearly no loss between the two mirrors on the paired satellites.

Santa María's book also gives instruction for creating music using the paired imitation technique of Josquin des Prez, who he clearly held to be the master of the style.

While at Harvard, Calkins invented the paired-associate technique, a research method where colors are paired with numbers, and the colors are presented again for recall.

Mystery motivation is often seen paired with the self-modeling technique.

Because most stable molecules have all their electrons paired, the EPR technique is less widely used than NMR.

During this period, Dunnery also gained some press attention for his invention of the Tapboard, an instrument based on two paired guitar necks and using a ten-finger tapping technique to create exceptionally fast and clear melodic runs and chording.

Edmonds paired Mink DeVille with producer Jack Nitzsche who had apprenticed under Phil Spector and helped shape the Wall of Sound production technique.

In a system that uses a paired disparity code, the transmitter must keep track of the running DC buildup -- the running disparity -- and always pick the codeword that pushes the DC level back towards zero.

When they were teammates on the Utah Jazz, Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer also utilized the high-screen pick and roll to great success, and similarly Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire when they were paired on the Phoenix Suns.

The show had him paired with a female partner .. He would bowl, and if he didn't strike, she would pick up the spare .. Then she would bowl again until she missed a strike .. Eddie would bowl until he didn't strike .. Eddie kept bowling strikes for 2 games ,, she never got up to attempt a spare.

The exact activities and conventions undertaken when practicing kenjutsu vary from school to school, where the word school here refers to the practice, methods, ethics, and metaphysics of a given tradition, yet commonly include practice of battlefield techniques without opponent and techniques where two persons paired kata ( featuring full contact strikes to the body in some styles and no body contact strikes permitted in others ).

His name was often paired with the name of another famous student leader as Ba Hein and Ba Swe, both Thakins or members of the nationalist Dobama Asiayone ( We Burmans Association ) and were arrested by the British colonial government during the year of countrywide protests, demonstrations and strikes in 1938 known as the " 1300 Revolution " ( Htaung thoun ya byei ayeidawbon named after the Burmese calendar year ).

Two poets are paired on each record, in the order given above.

When each number of successes X is paired with its probability of occurrence Af, the set of pairs Af, is a probability function called a binomial distribution.

To each paired vertex and diagonal point there corresponds a unique forward corner point, i.e., the corner on C reached first by proceeding along C from the vertex in the direction of increasing T.

In the case of LORAN, one station remains constant in each application of the principle, the primary, being paired up separately with two other secondary stations.

The paired and replicated chromosomes are called bivalents or tetrads, which have two chromosomes and four chromatids, with one chromosome coming from each parent.

The zygotene stage, also known as zygonema, from Greek words meaning " paired threads ", occurs as the chromosomes approximately line up with each other into homologous chromosome pairs.

By 1925 it was known that protons and electrons had a spin of 1 / 2, and in the Rutherford model of nitrogen-14, 20 of the total 21 nuclear particles should have paired up to cancel each other's spin, and the final odd particle should have left the nucleus with a net spin of 1 / 2.

At the end of each row, the paired ploughs are turned over, so the other can be used.

In this case, each circuit board was paired with a second, placed back to back with a sheet of copper between them.

From this point of view, several common characteristics still support the Articulata concept — segmented body ; paired appendages on each segment ; pairwise arrangement of waste-elimination organs in each segment ; and above all, a rope-ladder-like nervous system based on a double nerve strand lying along the belly.

For each possible pair of candidates, one pairwise count indicates how many voters prefer one of the paired candidates over the other candidate, and another pairwise count indicates how many voters have the opposite preference.

In contexts where a Titan and a Titaness are assigned each of the seven planetary powers, Atlas is paired with Phoebe and governs the moon.

In cartilaginous fishes and teleosts, the heart pumps blood forward through the ventral aorta which splits up in a series of paired aortic arches, each corresponding to a gill arch.

When Muhammad arrived in Medina, he paired off each immigrant ( Muhajir ) with one of the residents of the city ( Ansari ), joining Muhammad ibn Maslamah with Umar making them brothers in faith.

Instead of physically connecting the antennas, data received at each antenna is paired with timing information, usually from a local atomic clock, and then stored for later analysis on magnetic tape or hard disk.

Chromosomal crossover refers to recombination between the paired chromosomes inherited from each of one's parents, generally occurring during meiosis.

It's unfortunate that the acts never paired again on record, as they well-balanced each other's musical genres for a pleasant blend.

The subcaudal scales are single or paired in each row, numbering 83 to 96 in males and 77 to 98 in females.

The prosoma ( cephalothorax ) is divided into three regions, each covered by plates, the large protopeltidium and the smaller, paired, mesopeltidia and metapeltidia.

Small daily changes and noticeable semi-annual changes in the timing of sunsets are driven by the axial tilt of Earth, daily rotation of the Earth, the planet's movement in its annual elliptical orbit around the Sun, and the Earth and Moon's paired revolutions around each other.

Even through the transition to a paired pantheon of male deities matched or " married " to each goddess and during the male-deity-dominated pantheon that arose much later, the mother goddesses persisted into historical times ( such as Hathor and Isis ).

They were paired together online, without knowing each other's true identity, fell in love, met in real life, and decided to continue their romantic relationship, though this is rarely shown.

They were paired together online, without knowing each other's true identity, fell in love, met in real life, and decided to continue their romantic relationship, though this was largely ignored in later stories.