The lowest string is purposefully laid lower at the nut of the instrument, so that it buzzes, creating a characteristic timbre known as sawari ( somewhat reminiscent of the " buzzing " of a sitar, which is called jivari ).

This nut has a perpendicular center slot for the bolt, and an intersecting axial slot for the string, along with a lower face or slot against which the internal trigger sits.

The volume of the note can be changed by striking harder or softer, and the pitch can also be affected by varying the force of the tangent against the string ( known as Bebung ).

When bluegrass bass players slap the string by pulling it until it hits the fingerboard or hit the strings against the fingerboard, it adds the high-pitched percussive " clack " or " slap " sound to the low-pitched bass notes, sounding much like the clacks of a tap dancer.

Pinching a string against the fretboard effectively shortens the vibrating length of the string, producing a higher pitch.

Pressing a string against a fret determines the strings ' vibrating length and therefore its resultant pitch.

The traditional French schooling allows for the right arm to be lightly rested against the harp using the wrist to sometimes bring the hand only away from the string.

As with the nut, the horizontal position of the string along the bridge is determined by a vertical metal pin inserted into the bridge, against which the string rests.

A few new instructions were introduced with the 80186 ( referred to as the 8086-2 instruction set in some datasheets ): enter / leave ( replacing several instructions when handling stack frames ), pusha / popa ( push / pop all general registers ), bound ( check array index against bounds ), and ins / outs ( input / output of string ).

The pegbox for lutes before the Baroque era was angled back from the neck at almost 90 ° ( see image ), presumably to help hold the low-tension strings firmly against the nut, which is not traditionally glued in place, but is held in place by string pressure only.

Also called the " plate ", the iron frame sits atop the soundboard, and serves as the primary bulwark against the force of string tension.

The combined Papal-Byzantine forces joined with the rebels against the Normans in Southern Italy, achieving a string of rapid successes as a number of cities yielded either to the threat of force or the lure of gold.

He began ordering Martok on near-suicidal missions against Dominion forces, hoping that a string of defeats would weaken Martok's popularity and discredit him as a military leader.

Instead of altering the pitch of the strings in the normal manner ( by pressing the string against frets ), a slide is placed upon the string to vary its vibrating length, and pitch.

During the first part of the Shōwa era, the governments of Imperial Japan launched a string of policies to promote total war effort against China or occidental powers and increase industrial production.

In November 1966, Washington was re-elected to the house over Daley's strong objections ; by January 1967, the second complaint in a string of six complaints against Washington had been filed.

Similar stages to be modelled can be found in instruments such as a violin, though the energy excitation in this case is provided by the slip-stick behavior of the bow against the string, the width of the bow, the resonance and damping behavior of the strings, the transfer of string vibrations through the bridge, and finally, the resonance of the soundboard in response to those vibrations.

* In Maghrib, after a string of successes against the fast declining Almohads, Abu Zakariya, the first Hafsid ruler of Ifriqiya conquers Tlemcen.

This, and a string of other French victories in 1757, prompted the British to organize a large-scale attack on the fort as part of a multi-campaign strategy against French Canada.

The soundboard has a curved crown to provide the proper pressure against the string for maximum sound projection.

; M: Match the accept buffer against string variables or string literals.

In the studio, for example, percussion legend Emil Richards used mallets made of wood that had a curve in which to place the fingers, sometimes wrapping cotton or silk string around the beating end to soften the sound.

This lifts a jack, a long strip of wood, to which is attached a small plectrum ( a wedge-shaped piece of quill or, nowadays plastic ), which plucks the string.

A few additional partial frets of wood are usually glued to the body of the instrument, to allow stopping the highest-pitched courses up to a full octave higher than the open string, though these are regarded anachronistic by some ( although John Dowland and Thomas Robinson describe the practice of gluing wooden frets onto the soundboard ).

Achieving a tonal characteristic that is effective and pleasing to the player's and listener's ear is something of an art, and the makers of string instruments often seek very high quality woods to this end, particularly spruce ( chosen for its lightness, strength and flexibility ) and maple ( a very hard wood ).

In addition, tannin, fibre, paper, rope and string can be produced from the wood.

In music for bowed string instruments, col legno, or more precisely col legno battuto ( Italian for " hit with the wood "), is an instruction to strike the string with the stick of the bow, rather than by drawing the hair of the bow across the strings.

The wood of the bow can also be drawn across the string — a technique called col legno tratto (" drawn with the wood ").

The work is even more harmonically adventurous and contrapuntally complex than Bartók's previous two string quartets and explores a number of extended instrumental techniques, including sul ponticello ( playing with the bow as close as possible to the bridge ), col legno ( playing with the wood rather than the hair of the bow ), glissandi ( sliding from one note to another ) and the so-called Bartók pizzicato ( plucking the string so that it rebounds against the instrument's fingerboard ).

The common instruments of the Maninka jeli ensemble are the kora ( 21-24 string lute-harp, classified by the manner of playing as well as the bridge structure ), the bala ( a slat idiophone constructed of wood with small gourd resonators, similar to a xylophone ), the n ' goni ( a 4-7 string lute ), the jeli dununba ( a large mallet drum hung from one shoulder and played with a curved stick, accompanied by a bell played with the opposite hand ), the n ' taman ( an hourglass shaped tension drum, both large and small variations, often called the talking drum ), and the tabale ( a tall conga-shaped drum played with long, thin flexible sticks ).

The oldest necklaces were made of purely natural materials-before weaving and the invention of string, durable vines or pieces of animal sinew left over from hunts were tied together and adorned with shells, bones or teeth or colorful skins of human prey animals, bird feathers, corals, carved pieces of wood, colorful seeds or stones or naturally occurring gems, or other beautiful or artful natural elements found nearby.

Many sailors in the Royal Navy, during the 1950s at least, used a spreader-a length of wood with a V cut in each end to engage the second hammock string on each side.

There is evidence that they were used in Egypt as early as 2000 BC when string-operated figures of wood were manipulated to perform the action of kneading bread, and other string controlled objects.

* con sordina, or con sordine ( plural ): with a mute, or with mutes ; several orchestral instruments can have their tone muted with wood, rubber, metal, or plastic devices ( for string instruments, mutes are clipped to the bridge, and for brass instruments, mutes are inserted in the bell ); compare senza sordina in this list ( which instructs the musicians to remove their mutes ); see also Sordino.

Often, the writing for cimbalom in films was quite percussive, but Emil used a number of different beaters ( wood only, or wrapped with string or yarn ) to achieve different timbres on the instrument.

This construction method distinguished them from some earlier types of string instruments whose bodies ( if not the entire instrument including neck ) were carved out from a solid single block of wood.

The fundamental acoustic principle underlying the vertical viola is that the main body resonance ( resonance of the wood of the instrument ) should match the second-highest string, and the main cavity resonance ( resonance of the air the instrument contains ) should match the third-highest string.

The berimbau consists of a wooden bow ( verga – traditionally made from biribá wood, which grows in Brazil ), about 4 to 5 feet long ( 1. 2 to 1. 5 m ), with a steel string ( arame – often pulled from the inside of an automobile tire ) tightly strung and secured from one end of the verga to the other.

They are generally played with a wooden mallet wrapped in string on one end ( to soften the attack ) or the end of the mallet, which is bare, finished wood.

Another shibori method is to wrap the fabric around a core of rope, wood or other material, and bind it tightly with string or thread.

Traditionally, the cloth is sandwiched between two pieces of wood, which are held in place with string.