British industry is keen to play its part and has put a case to government, through the UK Space Agency, to be allowed to develop the MHS follow-on instrument.
Mother-of-pearl is used as a pristine gloss on the instrument cluster, knobs, and clock.
The MEP accused Mr Bush of "playing the tune of freedom on the instrument of violence".
Halvorson is known for her distinct sound on the instrument, some of which derives from her sharp strumming technique.
His father was an amateur clarinet player who gave Adams lessons on the instrument when he was in grade school.
On his instrument, this pedal shifted the piano's action so that the hammers actually struck only one string at a time.
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Twenty-eight years on that instrument is a reminder of those cruel times.
Electric guitar collecting also focuses on an instrument's provenance (past ownership) whereas acoustic guitar collectors emphasize the importance of tonal quality and craftsmanship.
On the instrument panel, a graphic depicted each of the cars around us as a white rectangle and tracked its movement relative to ours.
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We particularly liked the stylish-yet-legible metal-rimmed gauges on the instrument panel.
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Catch That Train is his latest CD of what he calls "family music": He's a big advocate of everyone jumping in on whatever instrument they can play.
For Yo-Yo Ma's hypercello, Machover placed sensors on the instrument, the performer's wrist and his bow and fed the electronic impulses generated by those sensors into a computer.
' You can play all the notes on either instrument.
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The design began way back in 2006, with the goal being to create a full-on multitouch instrument with the ability to let one's finger dictate volume, timbre, pitch and pressure.
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Clapton relied on this instrument throughout his career, from the Yardbirds, to Cream, to John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos, and then as a solo artist.
For players, the distinctive sound of jazz has derived not from acquiring a conventional classical technique on an instrument, but from emulating the spontaneous twists and turns of an impassioned voice.
Mr. MA: I think it was the combination of energy and to a player, a cellist, a fellow cellist, the impossibility of what he was doing on the instrument beyond physical ability.
Instead of re-contextualizing it on your instrument in music as part of your own composition, you could then re-contextualize the piece by taking the actual piece and putting it in a new setting.
Was that violinist really playing without his chin resting on the instrument which would make it difficult for him to switch the position of his left hand or was he just posing that way for the picture?
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The show lasted almost five hours, with each performer showcasing his own particular brand of wizardry on the instrument (all the headliners were men, though there were a few women as supporting players in the program).
And here's someone who many people don't know for his proficiency on this instrument, and many say he was a better piano player than he was a singer, and that's the great Nat King Cole, who falls number 24 on this list.
You can get 47 miles per gallon and Nair says he has consistently done so by driving in EcoCruise mode, at 60 miles per hour, and using all the coaching tools Ford provides on the instrument panel to perfect your braking and acceleration behavior.
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Much orchestral music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries also calls for bass trombone, but since the true bass trombone is a very long, very unwieldy instrument, most bass trombone parts are played today on a hybrid instrument called the tenor-bass trombone.
Michelle Phillips, a member of the Mamas and the Papas, remembers how Hendrix amazed the crowd and fellow artists with his jaw-dropping performance, playing his guitar on his back, behind his back, lying down and setting the instrument on fire.
The core rhythm, a loop that Apple re-creates live on a metal percussion instrument, began as her banging with scissors on the things that sit on her desk at home.
From ragtime to modern fusion, jazz music has always relied on one staple instrument: the piano.
The power display in the dial instrument on the right is immediately obvious.
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Now, imagine how groovy Happy Birthday sounds when strummed on that island instrument.
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There are two ways to play different notes (that is, to vary the pitch of notes) on a brass instrument.
Prof Matt Griffin, from Cardiff University, is team leader on the Spire instrument, which is sensitive to some of the longest wavelengths.
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