"It's really not unlike playing an instrument, or playing a sport, " says Drew Houston, who created file-sharing site Dropbox.
And so it takes some skills that are in addition to playing your instrument well and being good musicians.
"It's a little bit like playing an instrument, " McGonigle, 43, says.
Fortunately, though, almost anyone can at least aspire to be a musician, and a new study backs up this seemingly obvious connection between attractiveness and playing an instrument.
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Other guitars donated by friends include a Gibson owned by Townshend that comes with two guitar cases, a CD of Townshend playing the instrument, an official donation letter and a Polaroid of Townshend.
Miami-Dade Transit has said it does not allow singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument without a permit.
Davidson suggests some silly examples like taxes on keeping a pet, neglecting your yard, playing a musical instrument, and singing in the shower.
Those who spent their leisure time playing a musical instrument were happier than the group as a whole, but they also made less money.
The organ-tinted cue in the Mission Delores graveyard seems to waft from the instrument playing inside the church (an organ prelude composed by Herrmann).
Singing, or playing a musical instrument, requires fine muscular control.
The team is also looking to get the thing in the hands of musicians for more feedback -- we could even see the instrument playing a role in some future hip-hop productions.
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Conde specializes in playing the kora, a harp-like instrument, and describes himself as a griot, a storyteller who keeps tradition going through generations.
So he invariably asked to have a second piano onstage, because midway through a recital Liszt's powerful playing would result in broken strings and an instrument that was hopelessly out of tune and quite unplayable.
The lines of these wood accents "flow" from the sporty gearshift area and ascend the center console and across the lower instrument panel to the door trim, playing a large role in defining the interior space in the front of the vehicle.
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In addition to rediscovering lost scores, Mr Savall set about completely reinventing a playing technique that would help him draw the best from the delicate instrument.
Shimabukuro grew up playing traditional Hawaiian music on the ukulele, and has stuck with the instrument for 25 of his 29 years.
The idea is that nano-vibrations would change the quality of the instrument itself based on acoustics, the environment, humidity, or even playing style.
So after a few months' hard playing, it began to bow, something I had to adapt to, not having a second instrument.
On valve horns, however, different crooks are built into the instrument, and the (three) valves make it possible to engage the crooks while playing, greatly expanding the range of notes available at any one time.
Once the app model takes hold, some people will start playing with their content options at a level of granularity that will make the DVR look like a blunt instrument.
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It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it was still only a copy of the best guitar of the day, the Gibson ES-335.
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