In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

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The Western glockenspiel and vibraphone are also metallophones: they have two rows of bars, in an imitation of the piano keyboard, and are tuned to the chromatic scale.

Distance in this space corresponds to physical distance on keyboard instruments, orthographical distance in Western musical notation, and psychological distance as measured in psychological experiments and conceived by musicians.

For the album's supporting tour, Nevada Bachelors guitarist Mike Squires was added as the group's live guitarist as well as The Western State Hurricanes founder John Roderick on keyboard.

This is similar to some Western keyboard music where slurs between the staves are possible.

, or kana spelling, is a style of romanization of Japanese originally devised for entering Japanese into word processors ( wādo purosessā, often abbreviated wāpuro ) while using a Western QWERTY keyboard.

It had five or seven buttons on the right keyboard, and like in the most Western diatonic accordions it produced different sounds on pull and push.

The layout of a manual is roughly the same as a piano keyboard, with long, usually ivory or light-colored keys for the natural notes of the Western musical scale, and shorter, usually ebony or dark-colored keys for the five sharps and flats.

Semitone Music Academy and Symphony Music School cater to those who wish to learn Western Music, mainly guitar and musical keyboard.

However, a large proportion of catches is not reported at species level ; in the FAO fishery statistics, the category " Croakers, drums, not elsewhere included ", is the largest one within Sciaenidae, with annual landings of 431, 000 – 780, 000 tonnes in 2000 – 2009, most of which were reported from the Western Indian Ocean ( FAO fishing area 51 ) and Northwest Pacific ( FAO fishing area 61 ).

There is speculation that some time in the 1st century BC ( during the Western Han Dynasty ), the beating of drums and gongs were mechanically-driven by working automatically off the rotation of the road-wheels.

A lead singer is accompanied by the khaen, a bamboo mouth organ, Western drums, electric guitar, and electric keyboards and bass guitar.

' Chimurenga ' also refers to a style of music first branded by Thomas Mapfumo, who mixed African rhythmic patterns and instruments such as Mbira ( thumb piano ), drums, gourd rattles with Western styles ( e-guitar ) in songs that achieved wide popularity among the protest movement against white minority rule.

Eskimo Joe is an Australian alternative rock band formed by Stuart MacLeod on guitars, Joel Quartermain on drums and guitar and Kavyen Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1997.

It featured instrumentation that was common with dance bands of the time, such as reed and brass instruments, but also several elements that gave it some " Western " flair, such as a banjo being prominently " finger picked " rather than strummed ( the standard role for the banjo in jazz of that time ), a lush fiddle sound, and drums played prominently with a strong and syncopated beat.

The members Belinda-Lee Reid ( vocals, guitar ), Jaclyn Pearson ( drums ), Jessica Bennett ( lead guitar ) and Micaela Slayford ( vocals, bass ) all met in high school ( Santa Maria College ) in Attadale, Western Australia and formed the band Exteria in 1996.

A 1992 Western Canadian tour was booked, with Brian Doerner filling in on drums for the unavailable Greg Hinz, and Brent Doerner filling in for Denny Balicki.

II, 3: Non-tunable Western drums: Tenor drum, in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, Stanley Sadie, ed.

The main types of drums in Western Africa are the Djembe and the Talking Drum.

: Sinfoni Melayu, a three movement symphony which tried to combine the musical elements of the country into a synthetic language which called on native drums and xylophones as well as instruments of the full Western orchestra.

The DeFranco Family recorded in the famed United Western Recorders studios in Hollywood ( which later became known as Ocean Way Recording ) with accompaniment by " Wrecking Crew " veterans Hal Blaine on drums, Larry Carlton on guitar, and Max Bennett ( bass player ).

Bob Dunn of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing with his January 1935 Decca recordings, departing almost entirely from Hawaiian musical influence and heading towards Jazz and Blues.

Recruiting David Marks, who had been playing electric guitar ( and practicing with Carl ) for years, Brian and the revamped Beach Boys cut new tracks at Western Recorders including an updated " Surfin ' Safari " and " 409 ".

It was backed by the more traditional " Let The Juke Box Keep On Playing ," complete with fiddle, " Western Boogie " bass line, steel guitar and weepy vocal.

The instrumentals, however, are completely different: they combine ethnic melodies ( often Eastern Europe, Mexican or spaghetti Western ) played on Segel's violin and Molla's guitar, with ska beats supplied by Guess, Lowery and Krummenacher.

The melodies of enka are fundamentally Western harmonies, and electronic instruments are used, such as synthesizers and electric lead guitar with plenty of distortion, but its musical instruments also include traditional Japanese instruments such as the shakuhachi and the shamisen.

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were the leading proponents of Western Swing, which combined country singing and steel guitar with big band jazz influences and horn sections ; Wills's music found massive popularity.

By the late 1960s, however, the pop scene was dominated by generic guitar bands that imitated Western acts.

Part of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is also sometimes called " Guitar Row " due to the large number of guitar stores and music industry-related businesses, including the recording studios Sunset Sound Studios and United Western Recorders.

" The late Stuart Adamson of Big Country contributed his trademark E-Bow guitar to " Dark Western Night " and another Prime Mover song, " Strong As I Am ," was featured in Michael Mann's motion picture thriller, Manhunter.

In the 1930s, Kabylians moved in large numbers to Paris, where they established cafes where musicians like Cheikh Nourredine added modern, Western instruments like the banjo, guitar and violin to Kabylian folk melodies.

The musician Sol Ho ' opii arose during this time, playing both Hawaiian music and jazz, Western swing and country, and developing the pedal steel guitar ; his recordings helped establish the Nashville sound of popular country music.

Influenced by Western genres such as jazz and blues, ryūkōka incorporated Western instruments such as the violin, harmonica, and guitar.

Singers like Jagjit Singh ( who first used a guitar in ghazals ), Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain, Hariharan, Mohammad Rafi, Pankaj Udhas and many others have been able to give a new shape to the ghazal by incorporating elements of Western music.

The automobile dashboard, the iconic Fender Stratocaster electrical guitar, and popular telephones from the Western Electric Model 302 rotary dial to the Apple iPhone multi-touch screen are examples of effective control panels.

The steel guitar, when played in Hawaiian, Country, Bluegrass, or Western Swing styles, is almost always plucked using a plastic thumbpick affixed to the right hand's thumb, and metal or plastic " fingerpicks " fitted to the first 2, 3, or even all 4 fingers of the right hand.

Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.

With the growing importance and influence of China's economy globally, Mandarin instruction is gaining popularity in schools in the USA, and has become an increasingly popular subject of study amongst the young in the Western world, as in the UK.

Clausewitz introduced systematic philosophical contemplation into Western military thinking, with powerful implications not only for historical and analytical writing but also for practical policy, military instruction, and operational planning.

The LSI-11 ( PDP-11 / 03 ), introduced in February, 1975 was the first PDP-11 model produced using large-scale integration ; the entire CPU was contained on four LSI chips made by Western Digital ( the MCP-1600 chip set ; a fifth chip could be added to extend the instruction set, as pictured on the right ).

Because of this standardization, it is possible for anyone with the proper training to enjoy modern Western square dancing in many countries around the world ; although instruction is typically given in the local language, the calls are always in English.

After the Meiji Restoration introduced Western musical instruction, a bureaucrat named Izawa Shuji compiled songs like " Auld Lang Syne " and commissioned songs using a pentatonic melody.

In the UK and Europe the Country Western Dance Council ( CWDC ) provide competitions, instruction and training for dance instructors, and are the UK's Officially recognised governing body affiliated with the British Dance Association.

Although Chinese medical schools that provided training in Western medicine also provided some instruction in traditional medicine, relatively few physicians were regarded as competent in both areas in the mid-1980s.

To pursue an explanation of the relationship between God and man, Calvin adopts a traditional structure of Christian instruction used in Western Christianity, by arranging the material according to the plan of the Apostles ' Creed.

After receiving instruction from Muḥammad al-Ghālī from 1828 to 1830 in Makka, Umar Tall was appointed Khalīfa ( successor or head representative ) of Aḥmed at-Tijānī for all of the Western Sudan ( Western sub-Saharan Africa ).

They recognized that studies in music theory and music composition in Japan almost entirely consisted in Western theory and instruction.

Studies in music theory and music composition almost entirely consisted in Western theory and instruction.

The English language was used as the medium of instruction on the grounds that it was the key to Western knowledge.

Native-language instruction has also been advocated for the children of recent or longtime immigrants in many Western countries, particularly the United States.

After elementary schooling in Turkish in his native village, he studied at the Xavierian Shkodër Jesuit College in Shkodra which offered him not only some instruction in Albania but also an initial contact with central European culture and Western ideas.

The Mensch Computer is a computer system based on the WDC 65C265 microcontroller ( which implements both the 16-bit instruction set of the W65C816 / 65816 microprocessor, as well as the 8-bit instruction set of the 6502 microprocessor ) and produced by the Western Design Center.

In 1636, the Dutch started a school for the Sinckan that not only featured religious instruction, but also provided schooling in Western literature.

At right is the bottom instruction card of Death Valley Junction # 2, a non-dial Western Electric 1A1 coin collector located at the Amagosa Opera House.