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The modern sophisticated instrument spanning 6½ octaves in virtually all keys was perfected by the 19th-century French maker Sébastien Érard and because of its pedal-driven ability to play all sharps and flats of all notes within its range, it continues today as the standard style of most large professional concert harps.
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Turning to the more modern versions, Curzon's ( London ) offers the most sophisticated keyboard work.
Although modern analytical chemistry is dominated by sophisticated instrumentation, the roots of analytical chemistry and some of the principles used in modern instruments are from traditional techniques many of which are still used today.
Among these were some surprisingly sophisticated principles, and a modern mathematician might be hard put to derive some of them without the use of calculus.
Although modern kilns often have sophisticated electrical systems to control the firing temperatures, pyrometric devices are also frequently used.
Today, the rise of cheap mass production means that this is no longer true, and, though a few expert locksmiths are also engineers and capable of sophisticated repairs and renovation work, the vast majority of locks are repaired by swapping of parts or like-for-like replacement, or upgraded to modern mass-production items.
More modern and sophisticated approaches seek to maintain the idea of the morpheme while accommodating non-concatenative, analogical, and other processes that have proven problematic for Item-and-Arrangement theories and similar approaches.
Towards the end of the era, large, sophisticated reptiles were dominant and the first modern plants ( conifers ) appeared.
None of the telecommunications forms are as prevalent or as advanced as those in modern Western countries, but the system includes some of the most sophisticated technology in the world and constitutes a foundation for further development of a modern network.
None of the telecommunications forms were as prevalent or as advanced as those in modern Western countries, but the system included some of the most sophisticated technology in the world and constituted a foundation for further development of a modern network.
The modern British Formula One Stock Car is a highly sophisticated purpose built race car with race-tuned V-8 engines developing 650 bhp, quick change axles and gearboxes and biased and staggered chassis and braking set up for constant left turning.
Stars such as Dorothy Mackaill, Bebe Daniels, Frank Fay, Winnie Lightner, Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Alice White, and Jack Mulhall that had characterized the urban, modern, and sophisticated attitude of the 1920s gave way to stars such James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Edward G. Robinson, Warren William, and Barbara Stanwyck who would be more acceptable to the common man.
Sweden now built the first modern army in Europe, supported by a sophisticated tax system and government bureaucracy.
The system was among the first general-purpose user interfaces to handle publishing color standards, transparency, sophisticated sound and music processing ( through a Motorola 56000 DSP ), advanced graphics primitives, internationalization, and modern typography, in a consistent manner across all applications.
* Some modern CPUs and microcontrollers ( for example, TI OMAP ) or sometimes even DSPs may have boot ROM with boot code integrated directly into their silicon, so such a processor could perform quite a sophisticated boot sequence on its own and load boot programs from various sources like NAND flash, SD or MMC card and so on.
It was probably the only kind of modern firearm that could be manufactured in the forest without the need for sophisticated tools and factory equipment during the Second World War.
Even incomplete, it was the most sophisticated villa design yet seen in Italy, and greatly influenced the later development of the genre ; it appears to be the only modern building in Rome of which Palladio made a measured drawing.
A modern aircraft has a far more sophisticated suite of sensors and
* The second factor has been the use of English for " decorative " or " design " rather than functional purposes ; i. e., for Japanese consumption, not for English speakers per se, and as a way of appearing " smart, sophisticated and modern ," in much the same way as Japanese and similar writing script is used in western fashion.
This thinking guides the modern commodity markets, although they use a sophisticated range of financial instruments that are more than one-to-one representations of units of a given type of commodity.
The development of anatomy as a science extends from the earliest examinations of sacrificial victims to the sophisticated analyses of the body performed by modern scientists.
More sophisticated turbines ( such as those found in modern jet engines ) may have multiple shafts ( spools ), hundreds of turbine blades, movable stator blades, and a vast system of complex piping, combustors and heat exchangers.
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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.
The modern form of this instrument was developed by Edward Weston, and uses two spiral springs to provide the restoring force.
In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.
One modern example of such an ascending valve is the Yamaha YSL-350C trombone, in which the extra valve tubing is normally engaged to pitch the instrument in Bb, and pressing the thumb lever removes a whole step to pitch the instrument in C. Valves require regular lubrication.
This table is correct for the core 3-valve layout on almost any modern valved brass instrument.
The modern full size classical guitar has a scale length of around 650 mm ( 25. 6 inches ), with an overall instrument length of 965 – 1016 mm ( 38-40 inches ).
It is the second largest bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, the double bass being the largest.
A widely used modern instrument is the differential scanning calorimeter, a device which allows thermal data to be obtained on small amounts of material.
Leading modern exponents of the instrument include Derek Adlam, Christopher Hogwood, Richard Troeger, and Miklos Spányi.
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, contrabass, bass viol, stand-up bass or bull fiddle, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2 ( see standard tuning ).
The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths ( like a viol ), rather than fifths ( see Tuning, below ).
The leading figure of the double bass in the early 20th century was Serge Koussevitzky, best known as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who popularized the double bass in modern times as a solo instrument.
Serge Koussevitzky popularized the double bass in modern times as a solo instrument
The string bass is the most commonly used bass instrument in bluegrass music and is almost always plucked, though some modern bluegrass bassists have also used a bow.
A rarer instrument of the modern pitching system is the treble G flute.
Although the word guitar is descended from the Latin word cithara, the modern guitar itself is not generally believed to have descended from the Roman instrument.
There was an ancient Chinese harp called konghou ; the name is also now used for a modern Chinese instrument which is being revived.
The gravikord is a light ergonomically designed instrument made of modern materials mostly stainless steel tubing.
German builders extended the sound repertoire of the instrument by adding sixteen foot and two foot choirs ; these instruments have recently served as models for modern builders.
Perhaps the first instrument of modern public international law was the Lieber Code, passed in 1863 by the Congress of the United States, to govern the conduct of US forces during the United States Civil War and considered to be the first written recitation of the rules and articles of war, adhered to by all civilized nations, the precursor of public international law.
Another instrument, the Gravi-kora, a 21 string electro-acoustic instrument, was later developed by Robert Grawi especially for kora players who wanted a modern instrument.
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