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The Pikasso guitar ; 4 necks, 2 sound holes, 42 strings and also the Oracle Harp Sympitar ; 24 strings ( with 12 sympathetic strings protruding through the neck ) are modern examples.
Some instruments are employed with sympathetic strings, additional strings not meant to be plucked.
It derives its resonance from sympathetic strings, a long hollow neck and a gourd resonating chamber.
The sitar's curved frets are movable, allowing fine tuning, and raised so that sympathetic strings ( tarb, also known as " taarif " or " tarafdaar ") can run underneath them.
The instrument has two bridges ; the large bridge ( badaa goraa ) for the playing and drone strings and the small bridge ( chota goraa ) for the sympathetic strings.
The number of sympathetic strings is often limited to eleven but may feature thirteen.
It typically has thirteen sympathetic strings.
Though not technically a sitar, the electric sitar is a guitar with a special bridge, known as the " buzz bridge ", and sympathetic strings, to mimic the sitar.
To tune the sympathetic strings to raga Kafi for example: I Sa, vii ni ( lower case denotes flat ( komal ) I Sa, II Re, iii ga, III Ga ( Shuddh or natural, in Kafi the third is different ascending and descending ), iv ma, V Pa, VI Dha, vii ni, I Sa, II Re, iii ga.
Category: String instruments with sympathetic strings
The viola d ' amore ( Italian: love viol ) is a 7-or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period.
It looks like a thinner treble viol without frets and sometimes with sympathetic strings added.
In addition, it has an equal number of sympathetic strings located below the main strings and the fingerboard which are not played directly but vibrate in sympathy with the notes played.
A common variation is six playing strings, and instruments exist with as many as fourteen sympathetic strings alone.
Despite the fact that the sympathetic strings are now thought of as the most characteristic element of the instrument, early forms of the instrument almost uniformly lacked them.
The first unambiguous reference to a viola d ' amore without sympathetic strings does not occur until the 1730s.
Largely thanks to the sympathetic strings, the viola d ' amore has a particularly sweet and warm sound.
Category: String instruments with sympathetic strings

sympathetic and are
Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.
Furthermore, conditioned reactions are fundamentally altered when the hypothalamic sympathetic reactivity is augmented beyond a critical level, and several types of behavioral changes probably related to the degree of central autonomic `` tuning '' are observed.
Although in both emotions sympathetic symptoms are present, different autonomic-somatic patterns underlie aggression and anxiety, respectively, as indicated by the rate of the excretion of the catecholamines, the state of the muscle tone, and the Mecholyl test.
) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.
Rambert informs Tarrou of his escape plan, but when Tarrou tells him that others in the city, including Dr. Rieux, also have loved ones outside the city whom they are not allowed to see, Rambert becomes sympathetic and changes his mind.
But other thinkers sympathetic to his basic argument have suggested that the necessary ( though perhaps still not sufficient ) extra conditions may include the ability to pass not just the verbal version of the Turing test, but the robotic version, which requires grounding the robot's words in the robot's sensorimotor capacity to categorize and interact with the things in the world that its words are about, Turing-indistinguishably from a real person.
A large proportion of the Esperanto movement continue to hold such goals, and most are at least sympathetic to them.
# Autonomic nervous system transmission: both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are regulated by GPCR pathways, responsible for control of many automatic functions of the body such as blood pressure, heart rate, and digestive processes
" But Maloy adds that " The totalitarian thesis in Rousseau studies has, by now, been discredited as an attribution of real historical influence .” Arthur Melzer, however, while conceding that Rousseau would not have approved of modern nationalism, observes that his theories do contain the " seeds of nationalism ", insofar as they set forth the " politics of identification ", which are rooted in sympathetic emotion.
In one study, results gathered from 144 six-person juries indicated that when juries are in receipt of jury nullification information from the judge or defense attorney they are more likely to acquit a sympathetic defendant and judge a dangerous defendant more harshly than when such information is not present or when challenges are made to nullification arguments.
Harold Fleming and Lionel Bender, who are sympathetic to Greenberg's classification, acknowledge that at least some of his macrofamilies ( particularly Nilo-Saharan and Khoisan ) are not fully accepted by the linguistic community and may need to be split up ( Campbell 1997 ).
During his third century at the start of the tour, during a period of abuse from the spectators, he observed to a sympathetic Hunter Hendry that " All Australians are uneducated, and an unruly mob ".
In March 1938, Sennett was presented with an honorary Academy Award: " for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius-Mack Sennett.
Forms of the argument are also found in the works of authors not sympathetic to Nazism, such as F. J. P.
A view sympathetic with this possibility holds that, precisely because some form is immanent in several physical objects, it must also transcend each of those physical objects ; in this way, the forms are " transcendant " only insofar as they are " immanent " in many physical objects.
Because androids are not sympathetic, their responses are either absent or feigned, and measurably slower than a human's.
Heinlein challenges his readers ' possible racial preconceptions by introducing a strong, sympathetic character, only to reveal much later that he or she is of African or other descent ; in several cases, the covers of the books show characters as being light-skinned, when in fact the text states, or at least implies, that they are dark-skinned or of African descent.
Another definition states that its " primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled ".

sympathetic and tuned
The Haydn-era baryton was different from earlier versions in a crucial respect ; the sympathetic strings were tuned a full octave higher than previously.
The guitar is normally unable to produce effective sympathetic string resonance for tones other than E ( resonance from the 6th and 5th strings, tuned to E and A, respectively ), B ( from the 6th string ), D ( from the 4th string ), and A ( from the 5th and 4th strings ).
There are also two pairs of shorter sympathetic strings that run under the bass and over two small copper bridges about midway on the upper side of the fingerboard: their tuning is variable according to the piece to be played and with the performer's tastes: Every String has its own tuning peg and are tuned independently
Balinese gong kebyar gangsas, as with other metallophones in gong kebyar ensembles, are played in neighboring pairs with interlocking, rapid-tempo parts that elaborate on the melody of a piece of music ; these pairs are tuned to be dissonant and create certain wavelengths of sympathetic vibrations to create a shimmering tone that travels long distances.

sympathetic and notes
Professor Amélie Kuhrt, head of Ancient Near Eastern History at University College, London, in one of the standard reference works of the discipline, notes that " Many scholars feel sympathetic to the critique of weaknesses in the existing chronological framework [...], but most archaeologists and ancient historians are not at present convinced that the radical redatings proposed stand up to close examination.
Other critics have been less sympathetic and have characterized the books Brentano produced from his notes as " conscious elaborations of an overwrought romantic poet ".
Williams notes that Fallada's 1930 / 31 novel Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben (" Peasants, Bosses and Bombs ") ".. established as a promising literary talent as well as an author not afraid to tackle controversial issues " Martin Seymour-Smith said it is one of his best novels, " it remains one of the most vivid and sympathetic accounts of a local revolt ever written.
The city lives all its splendor during the Carnival celebration that lasts 4 days and 5 nights, being the headquarters city of Las Tablas Best Carnival of the republic, where one of the main attractions of the carnival in Las Tablas, are famous or culecos mojadera, which is sprayed with water ( clean and purified ) to the participants of this activity from sisternas cars ( especially pre-sterilized for this activity ) located throughout the park and surrounding streets are where the carnival, while can admire the tour of the queens of both streets, street up and down the street on spectacular floats, and suitable for this activity packed day, with the notes of the contagious and famous and well known murgas of Panama ( which also have its epicenter in the town of Las Tablas, where the best murgas the country ), do jumping and dancing for joy to young and old alike, unable to contain her joy and excitement following the queen with the most sympathetic all day without stopping or until the forces accompanying the activity takes place during four days of carnival, another attraction of this carnival is wasteful luxury and splendor of the costumes shown in the queens and their ladies, and the designs and finishes epectaculares floats of both daytime ( from culecos or mojaderas ) and evening, reaching its greatest splendor Carnival on Monday, his grace and charm of women represented in their Tableña and queens in ladies of his court to make the carnival Tableño one of the best and most famous carnavals the world.
Herbert Feith, an Australian scholar on Indonesian politics, notes that Wilopo was widely considered fair-minded and sympathetic to the plight of the working classes, working carefully towards his goals.
Phyllis Lassner, who has written extensively on Manning's writing from a colonial and post-colonial perspective, notes how even sympathetic characters are not excused their complicity as colonisers ; the responses of the Pringles assert " the vexed relationship between their own status as colonial exiles and that of the colonised " and native Egyptians, though given very little direct voice in The Levant Trilogy, nevertheless assert subjectivity for their country.
Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle notes Kilmer is the " master of disguises ", as " Templar's genius, like Kilmer's, involves slipping in and out of skins rapidly and offering only the slightest hint at the person who hides beneath the charade ... Kilmer dons 12 disguises in all, polishes them with impeccable accents and pliable postures ", with Shue's character offering " the same sympathetic dignity she brought to " Leaving Las Vegas ".
In Michael Hamburger ’ s introduction to his translation, Twenty Prose Poems of Baudelaire, the scholar notes a highly sympathetic view of the poor in Le Spleen de Paris.
Most electronic keyboards also have a sustain pedal which allows notes and chords to be held ; however, only the highest-end digital keyboards reproduce the sympathetic vibration effect.
Programme notes for a Boston Jewish Film Festival screening in 2004 hailed the play as " a BBC classic ... this bittersweet comedy about a British boy ’ s upcoming Bar Mitzvah features a strong sense of time and place stellar acting ", while the British Film Institute's website describes it as " a simple tale made memorable by genius writing and sympathetic performances.

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