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 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 were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

These were the last words he ever uttered.

These two were going to be easy pickins.

These performances were being staged at historical monuments throughout Europe.

These were Oneida Indians.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

These were his public academic activities, domi forisque, in the college and in the university.

These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.

These people were not talking much about it, but you, a foreigner, sensed their apprehension and disappointment.

These public efforts were rare because Mr. Rayburn normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before an issue reached its test on the House floor.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

These were heroes nine feet tall to him ''.

These little songs, however, were sweet nothings from the heart, tender memories of his childhood, little melodies that anyone could hum and that would make one want to weep.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

These were selected carefully and included not only detailed clinical information but adequate pathology of value for research and educational purposes.

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

These curves were derived by an analysis of extensive skywave measurement data.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.