These include the lack of implementation of harmonic tones that result when certain combinations of notes are sounded, limited polyphony, and a lack of natural reverberation when the instrument is played percussively.

Medieval and Renaissance sacred music relied heavily on the composers ' extensive understanding and use of the complex natural reverberation and echoes inside churches and cathedrals.

The basic purpose of such chambers is to add colour and depth to the original sound, and to simulate the rich natural reverberation that is a feature of large concert halls.

Buildings such as churches, church halls and ballrooms have often been chosen for the recording of classical and other music because of their rich, ' natural ' echo and reverberation characteristics.

The rooms are also designed to offer natural reverberation rather than adding the quality in post-production.

Stereo sound systems can be divided into two forms: The first is " true " or " natural " stereo in which a live sound is captured, with any natural reverberation or ambience present, by an array of microphones.

Reverb units provide electronic reverberation in an amplifier to produce a sound that is more natural to the human ear.

His structures echo natural forms, with columns like tree trunks supporting branching vaulting under the roadway, and the curves of vaulting and alignment of sloping columns designed in a similar way to his Church of Colònia Güell so that the inverted catenary arch shapes form perfect compression structures.

The first reverb effects created for recordings used a real physical space as a natural echo chamber.

Moreover, when we turn to those documents, which are authoritative, we find the Syllabus cannot even be called an echo of the Apostolic Voice ; for, in matters in which wording is so important, it is not an exact transcript of the words of the Pope, in its account of the errors condemned, just as would be natural in what is an index for reference.

The tide pool effects for the song were created by splashing oars in the private lake, performed by producer Terry Brown and studio assistant Kim Bickerdike, and the natural echo outside was used to record various instruments.

The say and echo commands are just to make it all seem a little more natural.

Alexandrite grown by the flux-melt process will contain particles of flux, resembling liquid feathers with a refractive index and specific gravity that echo that of the natural material.

The natural world then, plus poetry and some kinds of art, receives from the most ordinary of Persians a great deal of attention.

A projectile shot up from earth returns rectlinearly to its ' natural ' place of rest.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Again the student of evolutionary biology will find a fascinating, if to our minds grotesque, anticipation of the theory of chance variations and the natural elimination of the unfit in Lucretius, who in turn seems to have borrowed the concept from the philosopher Empedocles.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

Under this program, property sales specialists in the Small Business Administration regional offices help small business concerns to locate Federal property for sale and insure that small firms have the opportunity to bid competitively for surplus personal and real property and certain natural resources, including timber from the national forests.

A family dwelling without a basement provides some natural shielding from fallout radiation.

The effect of the recording is very open and natural, with the frequency emphasis exactly what you would expect from a live performance.

In following this general principle, Mason provides the observer with a natural eye progression from foreground to background, and the illusion of depth is instantly created.

The intranasal instillation of a fluid suspension of infectious agent in an anesthetized animal is far different from exposure, through natural respiration, to aerosolized organisms.

It is natural from the marksman's viewpoint to call a bull's-eye a success, but in the mice example it is arbitrary which category corresponds to straight hair in a mouse.

Much of this lifelike quality results from Mussorgsky's care in basing his vocal line on natural speech inflections.

-- The results of microanalysis of tektites ( natural glasses of unknown origin ) for gallium and germanium have shown that these glasses are probably produced from terrestrial ( or less likely from lunar ) matter by impact of a celestial body.

The equally ardent proponent of freedom from any kind of censorship may find the nude human form the `` natural, honest, free expression of man's spirit and the epitome of beauty and inspiration ''.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator.

The importance of this 5 can largely be explained by the natural mathematical properties of the middle number and its special relationship to all the rest of the numbers -- quite apart from any numerological considerations, which is to say, any symbolic meaning arbitrarily assigned to it.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.

And like this English master, Mason realizes his subjects in large, simplified masses which, though they seem effortless, are in reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them.

However, there is no hard limit to the upper range a virtuoso solo player can achieve using natural and artificial harmonics.

The term is formed by analogy to the popular distinction between the " hard " ( natural ) and " soft " ( social ) sciences.

Field hockey is played on gravel, natural grass, sand-based or water-based artificial turf, with a small, hard ball.

Sign languages are natural languages which have developed in Deaf communities, which can include interpreters and friends and families of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hard of hearing themselves.

It is very hard to uniquely identify neutrino interactions among the natural background of radioactivity.

He is unhappy about this because he wants to make more fjords ( arguing that they give a continent a baroque feel ), and fjords in Africa would be hard for him to explain without natural glacial movement.

Leo's lively interest in art and literature, to say nothing of his natural liberality, his alleged nepotism, his political ambitions and necessities, and his immoderate personal luxury, exhausted within two years the hard savings of Julius II, and precipitated a financial crisis from which he never emerged and which was a direct cause of most of what, from a papal point of view, were calamities of his pontificate.

Within the natural sciences, the term hard science is sometimes used to describe those sub-fields which some people view as relying on experimental, quantifiable data or the scientific method and focus on accuracy and objectivity.

This man-made material, when scraped with any hard, sharp edge, produces sparks that are much hotter than obtained with natural flint and steel, allowing use of a wider range of tinders.

Such data, itself hard won by scientists, demanded a natural explanation to scientists, rather than as a given by God.

He also believes such a world view finds it hard to explain how " Something of lasting significance is glimpsed in the beauty of the natural world and the beauty of the fruits of human creativity.

Cubic zirconia is relatively hard, 8-8. 5 on the Mohs scale — slightly harder than most semi-precious natural gems.

Non-linear editing is the most natural approach when all assets are available as files on video servers or hard disks rather than recordings on reels or tapes, while linear editing is related to the need to sequentially view a film or read a tape to edit it.

Director Sam Wood pushed hard to cast Lupino, saying that she " has a natural something that Cassie should have.

Unlike the PET's floppy system, however, users of the ICON used Unix commands to copy data to their personal floppy disks from its " natural " location in the user's home directory on the hard drive.

* Saltationism ( large mutations or jumps ), favored by early Mendelians who viewed hard inheritance as incompatible with natural selection

The base is next to Rogers Dry Lake, an endorheic desert salt pan whose hard dry lake surface provides a natural extension to Edwards ' runways.

Partly this is due to the salmon ( Salmo trutta ) and the grayling ( Thymallus thymallus ) that occur natural in the rivulet, but have had hard times due to dams.

For example natural suited blackjacks pay 2 to 1 instead of 1. 5 to 1, Any five card 21 automatically pays 2-1, pairs of aces cannot be split, all other pairs can be split, including 4s, 5s, and 10s, only one split is allowed, doubling is allowed on hard 8, 9, 10 and 11 only, and insurance can be taken any time the dealer shows an ace, no matter what cards the player holds.

Barrett claims that ‘ agency ’ – being able to figure out why people do what they do – is so important in everyday life, that it is natural for our brains to work too hard at it, thereby detecting human or ghost-like behaviour in everyday meaningless stimuli.

These invertebrates, along with symbiotic fungi, extend the root systems, break apart hard soil, enrich it with urea and other natural fertilizers, trap minerals and water and promote growth.

These burdens proved all the heavier as agriculture was hard hit by natural disasters from 1914 to 1917.

She is drawn to him because of his boyish good looks and his natural writing skill, which she finds captivating, although he doesn't work very hard at it.

Blair encourages people to improve their natural talents through hard work, but also to be content with their appointed stations in society.