The balalaika family of instruments includes instruments of various sizes, from the highest-pitched to the lowest, the prima balalaika, secunda balalaika, alto balalaika, bass balalaika, and contrabass balalaika.

An important part of balalaika technique is the use of the left thumb to fret notes on the lower string, particularly on the prima, where it is used to form chords.

The most common solo instrument is the prima, which is tuned E-E-A ( thus the two lower strings are tuned to the same pitch ).

The side of the index finger of the right hand is used to sound notes on the prima, while a plectrum is used on the larger sizes.

One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it is considered rather heterodox to do so.

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

In many common law jurisdictions ( e. g. the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand ), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury ( in contrast to a summary offence ).

That is, what is not moved by an outside force, but which propels itself, has a prima facie case for subjectivity.

Does it have intrinsic properties ( substance theory ), or is it lacking them ( prima materia )?

This enables the ontological view that energy is prima materia and matter is one of its forms.

On this view it could be said that fields are prima materia and the energy is a property of the field.

Sometimes the introduction of prima facie evidence is informally called making a case or building a case.

An aim of the doctrine of prima facie is to prevent litigants from bringing spurious charges which simply waste all other parties ' time.

The difference between the two is that prima facie is a term meaning there is enough evidence for there to be a case to answer.

For example: " There is a prima facie case that the defendant is liable.

The phrase prima facie is sometimes misspelled in the mistaken belief that is the actual Latin word ; however, the word is in fact faciēs ( fifth declension ), of which faciē is the ablative.

The Roman prima donna, Marianna Bulgarelli, who played Venus in this opera, spared no pains until she had discovered its author.

Tim played an on the edge ' super-hyper, type A, tweaked ' New York Director, dealing with acting styles and prima donnas in ' Method to the Madness ' directed by Kevin Kennedy at The Jewel Box Theatre in Los Angeles.

Factory-made six-string prima balalaikas with three sets of double courses are also common and popular, particularly in Ukraine.

The piccolo, prima, and secunda balalaikas were originally strung with gut with the thinnest melody string made of stainless steel.

His chief interest was still in mineralogy, but he occupied himself also with medical, mathematical, theological and historical subjects, his chief historical work being the Dominatores Saxonici a prima origine ad hanc aetatem, published at Freiberg.

A prima facie case might not stand or fall on its own ; if an opposing party introduces other evidence or asserts an affirmative defense it can only be reconciled with a full trial.

Res ipsa loquitur is often confused with prima facie (" at first sight "), the common law doctrine that a party must show some minimum amount of evidence before a trial is worthwhile.

Since owners of computers infected with spyware generally claim that they never authorized the installation, a prima facie reading would suggest that the promulgation of spyware would count as a criminal act.

In 1990, Unification Church founded its $ 8m Universal Ballet project, with Soviet-born Oleg Vinogradov as its art director and Julia Moon as its prima ballerina.

The United Methodist Church believes in prima scriptura, seeing the Holy Bible as the primary authority in the Church and using sacred tradition, reason, and experience to interpret it, with the aid of the Holy Spirit ( see Wesleyan Quadrilateral ).

La Scala hosted the prima ( first production ) of many famous operas, and had a special relationship with Verdi.

Szasz has indicated that his own views came from libertarian politics held since his teens, rather than through experience in psychiatry ; that in his " rare " contacts with involuntary mental patients in the past he either sought to discharge them ( if they were not charged with a crime ) or " assisted the prosecution in securing conviction " ( if they were charged with a crime and appeared to be prima facie guilty ); that he is not opposed to consensual psychiatry and " does not interfere with the practice of the conventional psychiatrist ", and that he provided " listening-and-talking (" psychotherapy ")" for voluntary fee-paying clients from 1948 until 1996, a practice he characterizes as non-medical and not associated with his being a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist.

UNESCO designation as a World Heritage Site provides prima facie evidence that such culturally sensitive sites are legally protected pursuant to the Law of War, under the Geneva Convention, its Articles, Protocols and Customs, together with other treaties including the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and international law.

Sola scriptura may be contrasted with prima scriptura, which holds that, besides canonical scripture, there are other guides for what a believer should believe, and how he or she should live.

For the remainder of 1748 and 1749 Gluck travelled with Mingotti's troupe, contracting a venereal disease from the prima donna and composing the opera La contesa de ' numi for the court at Copenhagen.

Carolus-Duran's atelier was progressive, dispensing with the traditional academic approach, which required careful drawing and underpainting, in favor of the alla prima method of working directly on the canvas with a loaded brush, derived from Diego Velázquez.

Sinosauropteryx prima were small bipedal theropods, noted for their short arms, large first fingers ( thumbs ), and long tails.

The word " minute " comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning first small part, and " second " from pars minuta secunda or second small part.

Under Diocletian, Raetia formed part of the diocese of the vicarius Italiae, and was subdivided into Raetia prima, with a praeses at Curia Raetorum ( Chur ) and Raetia secunda, with a praeses at Augusta Vindelicorum ( Augsburg ), the former corresponding to the old Raetia, the latter to Vindelicia.

Summa Theologiæ, Pars secunda, prima pars.

" Sic enim prima in secunda, secunda in tertia, et rursum tertia in secunda rotatur in prima.

Ardcath's church was dedicated to St Mary the Blessed Virgin as was a tradition of the Norman settlement with the tithe of the Church and Parish being directed to the Canons of Llananthony ( prima and secunda ) Wales from 1172 to 1541.

* Commentariorum in primum librum Sententiarum pars prima et secunda, Rome 1596

They were made in 3 sizes: prima, alto and bass.

The instruments are made in prima ( soprano ), alto and tenor and contrabass sizes.

Instruments are made in various sizes including piccolo, prima, alto, tenor, bass, and contrabass.