* Musical bow, a musical instrument resembling an archer's bow

Because it contains all the integer harmonics, it is one of the best waveforms to use for subtractive synthesis of musical sounds, particularly bowed string instruments like violins and cellos, since the slip-stick behavior of the bow drives the strings with a sawtooth-like motion.

In its derivative musical, Cats, the tuxedo cat is exemplified by the character of the magical Mr. Mistoffelees, who is portrayed as a stage magician wearing a lacy ruff and bow tie.

*** 311. 121 Mono-heterochord musical bows – The bow has one heterochord string only.

*** 311. 122 Poly-heterochord musical bows – The bow has several heterochord strings.

However, the word also embraces instruments that many westerners would hesitate to call string instruments, such as the musical bow and the piano ( which, although sometimes called a string instrument, is also called a keyboard instrument and a percussion instrument ).

They are plucked idiophones, such as the jaw harp, amplified cactus, kouxian, dan moi, music box or mbira ( lamellophone / thumb piano ); blown idiophones, of which there are a very small number of examples, the Aeolsklavier being one ; and friction idiophones, such as the singing bowl, glass harmonica, glass harp, turntable, verrophone, daxophone, styrophone, musical saw, or nail violin ( a number of pieces of metal or wood rubbed with a bow ).

Obu man playing a musical bow, Obubra, Cross River State, Nigeria

The musical bow is a simple string musical instrument present in most archaic cultures as well as many in the present day.

Richard Nunns playing a Māori music | Māori musical bow

Cave paintings in southern France dated to around 15, 000 BCE, show a bow being used as a musical instrument, so this use certainly has a long history.

The berimbau, a musical bow from Brazil, is quickly gaining players worldwide as a result of its association with the game of capoeira.

In the United States, the musical bow was apparently introduced by African slaves.

Modern uses are largely restricted to small items, particularly musical instrument parts, including black piano and harpsichord keys, violin, viola, guitar, double bass, and cello fingerboards, tailpieces, pegs, chinrests, and bow frogs.

In music, a bow is moved across some part of a musical instrument, causing vibration which the instrument emits as sound.

Different musical cultures have adopted various designs for the bow.

This sustaining of musical sound with a bow is comparable to a singer using breath to sustain sounds and sing long, smooth, or legato melodies.

This would account for the near-simultaneous appearance of the musical bow in the many locations cited by Halfpenny.

* Musical bow, musical instrument

The Ukeke is a Hawaiian musical bow played with the mouth.

Moondog also invented several musical instruments, including a small triangular-shaped harp known as the " oo ", another which he named the " ooo-ya-tsu ", and the " hüs " ( after the Norwegian, " hus ", meaning " house ") which is a triangular stringed instrument played with a bow.

In musical parlance Heseltine was a miniaturist, a category he was happy to accept despite the sometimes derogatory implications of the label: " I have neither the impulse nor the ability to erect monuments before which a new generation will bow down ".

The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.

`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.

Jazz is the musical language of sex, the vocabulary of the orgasm ; ;

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

Lawrence Ferlenghetti and Bruce Lippincott have concentrated on writing a new poetry for reading with jazz that is very closely related to both the musical forms of jazz, and the vocabulary of the musician.

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

A low-power, `` carrier-current '' broadcasting station, KARL, heard only in the campus dormitories, is owned and operated by the students to provide an outlet for student dramatic, musical, literary, technical, and other talents, and to furnish information, music, and entertainment for campus listeners.

In these readings, the double bass is either kept discreetly in the background, or it is dressed in clown's attire -- the musical equivalent of a bull in a china shop.

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

The easiest way to describe this release is to say that it reproduces an interesting and effective Steinberg performance with minimal alteration of its musical values.

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

Still, the network's willingness to experiment in this musical field is to be commended, and future essays happily anticipated.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

LaGuardia's multi-lingual rallies, when he is running for Congress, are well staged, and wind up in a wild Jewish folk-dance that is really great musical theater.

It has all been done in superb style, and the result is a show which deserves the support of every person hereabouts who enjoys good musical theater.