These instruments had varying numbers of strings, though often including some form of drone.

These instruments have three double courses similar to the stringing of the mandolin and often use a " guitar " tuning.

These are most often large – bore instruments with a rich mellow sound.

These parts are transpositions of parts written for other bass instruments used before the modern double bass became common and may actually lower the part an octave.

These lever systems, which superficially resemble the mechanisms of reed instruments such as the bassoon, include levers mounted beside the regular fingerboard ( near the nut, on the " E " string side ), which remotely activate metal " fingers " on the extension fingerboard.

These contrasting traditions may be vestiges of historical performance settings: large concert halls in which violins were played required more instruments, before electronic amplification, than did more intimate dance halls and houses fiddles were played in.

These instruments are descended from ones that existed in ancient central Asia and India.

These were used in trade and credit transactions ; they were used as remittance instruments for the purpose of transfer of funds from one place to another.

These instruments were eventually installed in the Macfarlane Observatory.

These instruments often had bodies covered with animal skin, and it is unknown exactly when it became replaced with a wooden soundboard.

These instruments, with up to 26-35 strings, required innovations in the structure of the lute.

These were expensive, but often used the sounds from respected MIDI instruments such as the E-mu Proteus.

These are available in sizes that range from 25-key, 2-octave models, to full-sized 88-key instruments.

These enable software instruments to be programmed without the discomfort of excessive mouse movements, or adjustment of hardware devices without the need to step through layered menus.

These laws were discovered empirically as far back as 984 AD and have been used in the design of optical components and instruments from then until the present day.

These instruments can also play all the sharps and flats, with a special technique of both tilting the pipes and jaw movement, thus reducing the size of the pipe's opening and producing a change in pitch.

These instruments impose a specific stress field or deformation to the fluid, and monitor the resultant deformation or stress.

These instruments had been designed by Beauchamp, assisted at the National String Instruments Corporation by Paul Barth and Harry Watson.

These instruments constitute the origin of the electric guitar we know and use today by virtue of their string-driven electro-magnetic pick-ups.

These instruments were also widely used among progressive rock bassists, particularly Chris Squire of Yes and Geddy Lee of Rush, who achieved distinctive signature sounds with their Rickenbacker bass, strung with round-wound Rotosound bass strings.

These migrations reflect the extraordinary courage of these seafaring people in navigating without instruments to sail throughout the vast Pacific Ocean.

These repair methods are used on piano soundboards, wood instruments, and wood furniture.

These first two records were produced by John Simon, who was practically a group member: he aided in arrangements, and played occasional instruments ( piano or tuba ).

These instruments are optimized for measuring AC voltage.

These are functionally the same as capped reed instruments as the reeds are not in contact with player's lips.

These preaching friars, with the authorization of Gregory IX, adopted ( with some modifications, e. g. the substitution of the " Gallican " for the " Roman " version of the Psalter ) the Breviary hitherto used exclusively by the Roman court, and with it gradually swept out of Europe all the earlier partial books ( Legendaries, Responsories ), & c., and to some extent the local Breviaries, like that of Sarum.

These protectorates were individually brought to independence by Britain in the 1960s in line with the trend towards self-government and independence that swept the British Empire following the close of the Second World War, a trend that reached its peak in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

These works swept away the remains of the original navigation.

These embers were swept away by the torrid winds only to float back to earth to start the blaze in new locations.

These troops swept down on a body of about 1, 000 to 1, 500 Ottoman soldiers, who became demoralised.

These results produced what Seligman described as " a great burst of enthusiasm about changing homosexuality swept over the therapeutic community " after the results were reported in 1966.

These convoys were held up each morning while the road was swept for mines.

These rotating disks served as mechanical brooms that swept the dirt on the streets.

These cavaliers of righteousness swept through the lands, expunging the taint of demonic contamination wherever they found it.

These were swept away in the 1850s and replaced by mainly industrial units, including a glass factory, a vinegar works and a gin distillery.

These are only ever swept away by exceptional floods ;

These animals are thought to have arrived on the island as a result of being swept out to sea while swimming off the coast of the nearby mainland.

These problems were swept under the rug in 1995 with the arrival of Paraguayan coach Gustavo Benitez who led Colo-Colo to win titles in 1996, 1997, and 1998.

These young men returned to the Philippines not only with technical knowledge in their chosen fields but also with the intellectual currents of the time, including constitutional republicanism which swept Spain in 1810.

These Cornelius designs were unusual for being not only forward swept but also tailless.

These patterns and features include the size, shape and exposure length of shingles, special treatments such as swept valleys, combed ridges, and decorative butt end or long side-lapped beveled handsplit shingles.