Encyclopedia - Clarinet: Encyclopedia - Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarinet: Encyclopedia Ii - Clarinet - Characteristics Of The Instrument
Clarinet - Tone. The clarinet has a distinctive liquid tone, resulting from the shape of the bore, whose characteristics vary between i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarinet: Encyclopedia Ii - Clarinet - Usage And Repertoire Of The Clarinet
Clarinet - Classical music. In classical music, clarinets are part of standard orchestral instrumentation, which frequently includes tw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Contrabass Clarinet: Encyclopedia - Contrabass Clarinet
The contrabass clarinet is the largest common member of the clarinet family. It is a Bb; instrument, although the Eb; contra-alto clarine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bass Clarinet: Encyclopedia - Bass Clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like standard clarinets, it is usually pitched in B flat (meaning it is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Bass Guitar: Encyclopedia - Acoustic Bass Guitar
The acoustic bass guitar is an acoustic string instrument based on the configuration of the electric bass pioneered by Leo Fender's elect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Bass Guitar: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Bass Guitar - Construction And Tuning
Unlike the electric bass guitar, which is generally a solid body instrument, the acoustic bass guitar usually has a hollow wooden body si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Guitar: Encyclopedia - Acoustic Guitar
An acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the Classical guitar, but generally strung with steel strings for a brighter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alto Clarinet: Encyclopedia - Alto Clarinet
The alto clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. It is a transposing instrument usually pitched in the key of E♭, thou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Contra-alto Clarinet: Encyclopedia - Contra-alto Clarinet
The contra-alto clarinet is a large, low-sounding musical instrument of the clarinet family. The contra-alto clarinet is pitched in the k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarinet Concerto: Encyclopedia - Clarinet Concerto
A clarinet concerto is a concerto for clarinet and orchestra. Clarinet concerto - Famous clarinet concertos. Malcolm Arnold's Clarinet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustics: Encyclopedia - Acoustics
Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. A scientist who works in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarinet Sonata: Encyclopedia - Clarinet Sonata
A clarinet sonata is a sonata for the clarinet, often with piano accompaniment. Clarinet Sonata - Famous Clarinet Sonatas. This list i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarinet Concerto Mozart: Encyclopedia - Clarinet Concerto Mozart
Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. It consists of the usual three movem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Resonance: Encyclopedia - Acoustic Resonance
Resonance is an important consideration for instrument builders as most acoustic instruments use resonators, such as the strings and body...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beat Acoustics: Encyclopedia - Beat Acoustics
In acoustics, a beat is an interference between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as periodic variations in volume ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Theory: Encyclopedia - Acoustic Theory
Acoustic theory is the field relating to mathematical description of sound waves. It is derived from fluid dynamics. See acoustics for th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architectural Acoustics: Encyclopedia - Architectural Acoustics
Architectural acoustics is the science of controlling quality of sound in buildings. The main concerns of architectural acoustics are: B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Impedance: Encyclopedia - Acoustic Impedance
The acoustic impedance Z (or sound impedance) is the ratio of sound pressure p to particle velocity v in a medium or acoustic component. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Absorption Acoustics: Encyclopedia - Absorption Acoustics
Absorption refers to the absorption of sound waves by a material. The Absorption is the "missing piece", when comparing the total reflect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Neuroma: Encyclopedia - Acoustic Neuroma
Acoustic neuroma (or Vestibular Schwannoma) is a benign tumor of the the myelin forming cells called "Schwann cells" of the 8th cranial n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Reflex: Encyclopedia - Acoustic Reflex
The acoustic reflex (or stapedius reflex) is an involuntary muscle contraction that occurs in the middle ear of mammals in response to hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Cryptanalysis: Encyclopedia - Acoustic Cryptanalysis
Acoustic cryptanalysis is a side channel attack which exploits sounds, audible or not, produced during a computation or input-output oper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructibility: Encyclopedia - Constructibility
In mathematics, there are several notions of constructibility: a point in the Euclidean plane that can be constructed with unruled strai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Construction: Encyclopedia - Construction
In project architecture and civil engineering, construction is the building or assembly of any infrastructure. Although this may be thoug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Violin Construction And Mechanics: Encyclopedia - Violin Construction And Mechanics
A violin consists of a body or corpus, a neck, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings. The fittings are the tuning peg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cordwood Construction: Encyclopedia - Cordwood Construction
Cordwood construction (aka "cordwood masonry" or "stackwall construction" or "stackwood construction") is a term used for an alternative ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Construction Grammar: Encyclopedia - Construction Grammar
The term construction grammar (CxG) covers a "family" of theories, or models, of grammar that are based on the idea that the primary unit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructed World: Encyclopedia - Constructed World
A constructed world (or conworld) is a fictional world, often created for a novel, video game, or role-playing game, but sometimes for pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructive Dismissal: Encyclopedia - Constructive Dismissal
In employment law, honorable dismissal is where an employee resigns due to their employer's behaviour. The employee must prove that the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructible Polygon: Encyclopedia - Constructible Polygon
In mathematics, a constructible polygon is a regular polygon that can be constructed with compass and straightedge. For example, a regula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructive Empiricism: Encyclopedia - Constructive Empiricism
Constructive empiricism, in philosophy, is a form of empiricism. Bas C. van Fraassen is nearly solely responsible for the initial develop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bass Clarinet: Encyclopedia Ii - Bass Clarinet - Bass Clarinet In Jazz
While the bass clarinet was seldom heard in early jazz compositions, a bass clarinet solo by Omer Simeon can be heard in the 1926 recordi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bass Clarinet: Encyclopedia Ii - Bass Clarinet - Uses
Bass clarinets are used to boost the overall sound in small ensembles. They are also used in symphony orchestras to make up for poor/abse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Bass Guitar: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Bass Guitar - History
The first modern acoustic bass guitar was developed in the early 1970s by Ernie Ball of San Luis Obispo, California. Ball's aim was to pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Metric: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Metric - Acoustic Horizons
Under general relativity, absolute gravitational horizons are sharply defined (at r=2M for a spherical black hole), and once defined, thi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - Harmony
If two notes are simultaneously played, with frequency ratios that are simple fractions (e.g. 2/1, 3/2 or 5/4), then the composite wave w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - Harmony
If two notes are simultaneously played, with frequency ratios that are simple fractions (e.g. 2/1, 3/2 or 5/4), then the composite wave w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Impedance: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Impedance - Impedance Of Acoustic Components
The acoustic impedance Z of an acoustic component (in Pa·s/m) is the ratio of sound pressure p to particle velocity v at a transition wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Metric: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Metric - Acoustic Metrics And Quantum Gravity
As of 2005, work towards obtaining a theory of quantum gravity is still being complicated by the lack of a solid understanding of the exa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - E-bow: Encyclopedia Ii - E-bow - E-bow And The Acoustic Guitar
Although the E-bow is most commonly played on the electric guitar because of the ease of use and the responsiveness you get from the pick...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Neuroma: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Neuroma - Assessment
Associated symptoms are unilateral sensorineural hearing loss/deafness and vertigo. Additionally more than 80% of patients having acousti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustics - Helmholtz Resonator
A Helmholtz resonator is a container with an open hole or neck. It is sometimes used as a passive noise control device. It behaves essent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Neuroma: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Neuroma - Assessment
Associated symptoms are unilateral sensorineural hearing loss/deafness and vertigo. Additionally more than 80% of patients having acousti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Metric: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Metric - Unusual Properties Of An Acoustic Metric
Unlike some other metrics, acoustic metrics can seem to show some very nonlinear behaviour: where special relativity's Minkowski metric i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Lubrication: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Lubrication - Examples
If there is a dynamic coefficient of friction between two objects of 0.20, and vibration causes them to be in contact only half of the ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Piano Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Piano Acoustics - Inharmonicity And Piano Size
In pianos, long strings are considered desirable. Piano design strives to fit the longest possible strings within a given case size; more...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarinet Concerto Mozart: Encyclopedia Ii - Clarinet Concerto Mozart - Second Movement: Adagio
Possibly the most well-known part of this concerto, the beautiful and profound Adagio opens with the soloist playing the movement's theme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horn Acoustic: Encyclopedia Ii - Horn Acoustic - Acoustic Horns In Popular Culture
The notion of "blowing a horn" is often used as an idiomatic expression for self-promotion. The popular children's song "I've been workin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Impedance: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Impedance - Characteristic Impedance
The characteristic impedance of a medium (usually air, but also for instance exhaust gases in a muffler) is the ratio of sound pressure p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarinet Concerto Mozart: Encyclopedia Ii - Clarinet Concerto Mozart - Third Movement: Rondo: Allegro
The closing rondo has a cheerful refrain, with episodes either echoing this mood or recalling the darker colours of the first movement. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - The Natural Scale
Human beings distinguish sounds on the basis of their frequency. Actually what really matters is the ratio between their frequencies. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flute: Encyclopedia Ii - Flute - Flute Acoustics
A flute produces sound when a stream of air directed across the top of a hole bounces in and out of the hole. Some engineers have called ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - Sound Waves
Variations in air pressure against the ear drum, and the subsequent physical and neurological processing and interpretation, give rise to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - The Natural Scale
Human beings distinguish sounds on the basis of their frequency. Actually what really matters is the ratio between their frequencies. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Hawking Radiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Hawking Radiation - Overlap Of Quantum And Classical Behaviour
Explanations of Hawking radiation around a black hole often use a description of quantum-mechanical pair production effects occurring on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vowel: Encyclopedia Ii - Vowel - Acoustics
The acoustics of vowels are fairly well-understood. The different vowel qualities are realized in acoustic analyses of vowels by the rela...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flute: Encyclopedia Ii - Flute - Flute Acoustics
A flute produces sound when a stream of air directed across the top of a hole bounces in and out of the hole. Some engineers have called ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - Sound Waves
Variations in air pressure against the ear drum, and the subsequent physical and neurological processing and interpretation, give rise to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Instruments By Nationality: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Instruments By Nationality - Clarinets
Main article: Clarinet Mijwiz - Lebanese music Meråker - Norwegian music Mitbiq - Iraqi music Treujenn-gaol - Breton music Tungehorn - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Hawking Radiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Hawking Radiation - Controversy: Identity Of Radiated Information
Although the "classical" and "quantum" descriptions of the overall statistical characteristics of the emitted radiation agree, the nature...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beat Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Beat Acoustics - Binaural Beats
Binaural beats are heard when the right ear listens to a slightly different tone than the left ear. Here, the tones do not interfere phys...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustics - Sound Pressure Level Spl
The amplitude of a sound wave is usually characterized by its sound pressure. In a normal working environment, a very wide range of press...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guitar: Encyclopedia Ii - Guitar - Acoustic And Electric Guitar
Broadly speaking, guitars can be divided into 2 categories: Acoustic guitars: Unlike the electric guitar, the traditional guitar is not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beat Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Beat Acoustics - Binaural Beats
See main article: binaural beats. Binaural beats are heard when the right ear listens to a slightly different tone than the left ear. Her...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - Harmonics Partials And Overtones
The fundamental is the frequency at which the entire wave vibrates. Overtones are other sinusoidal components present at frequencies abov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Metric: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Metric - A Simple Fluid Example
For simplicity, we will assume that the underlying background geometry is Galilean. This is absolutely unnecessary in analog models in ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - Harmonics And Non-linearities
When a periodic wave is composed of a fundamental and only odd harmonics (f, 3f, 5f, 7f, ...), the summed wave is symmetrical; it can be ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - The Equal Tempered Scale
In the natural scale the ratio of the frequencies of two notes which differ for one tone is not always the same. Consequently a certain m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horn Acoustic: Encyclopedia Ii - Horn Acoustic - Horn-loaded Loudspeakers
Loudspeakers are often built into horn-shaped enclosures or use horns. Most often the higher-frequency elements (tweeters; midrange) use ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Piano Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Piano Acoustics - String Length And Thickness
The strings of a piano vary in thickness, with bass strings thicker than treble. A typical range is from 1/30 inch for the highest treble...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horn Acoustic: Encyclopedia Ii - Horn Acoustic - Duplicity Of Signalling Horns
Bicycle horns usually consist of a single horn operating at a single resonant frequency, with a reed made of stainless steel, located in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - Harmonics And Non-linearities
When a periodic wave is composed of a fundamental and only odd harmonics (f, 3f, 5f, 7f, ...), the summed wave is half-wave symmetric; it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - The Equal Tempered Scale
In the natural scale the ratio of the frequencies of two notes which differ for one tone is not always the same. Consequently a certain m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Acoustics - Harmonics Partials And Overtones
The fundamental is the frequency at which the entire wave vibrates. Overtones are other sinusoidal components present at frequencies abov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horn Acoustic: Encyclopedia Ii - Horn Acoustic - Horn-based Musical Instruments
Horn acoustic - Horn-loaded musical instruments. Many wind instruments have some kind of bell shaped output to provide a good impedance...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Construction: Encyclopedia Ii - Construction - Construction
In general, there are three types of construction: (1) building, (2) heavy/highway, and (3) industrial. Each type of construction require...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Construction Set: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Construction Set - Description
With MCS, the user can create musical composition using a graphical user interface, a novel concept for the era of its release. Users cou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horn Acoustic: Encyclopedia Ii - Horn Acoustic - Functional Mathematical Shape Of Horns
Ideally, horns have exponentially tapered sides, but a linear taper is often used for ease of implementation — i.e. for the large plywo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinball Construction Set: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinball Construction Set - Description
PCS created a new genre of computer games—the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. In PCS, users constructed their own virtu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Sensor - Acoustic Sensors
Sensor - Acoustic. sound sensors: microphones, hydrophones, seismometers. acoustic: uses ultrasound time-of-flight echo return. Used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Sensor - Acoustic Sensors
Sensor - Acoustic. sound sensors: microphones, hydrophones, seismometers. acoustic: uses ultrasound time-of-flight echo return. Used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Hawking Radiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Hawking Radiation - Gravitational Analogues
Since "non-gravitational" Hawking radiation effects are usually considered to be analogous to the behaviour around black holes, they are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Hawking Radiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Hawking Radiation - Analogy Vs Identity
Visser, "Acoustic Black Holes" (1999): "This partial isomorphism is the basis of a very useful analogy whereby parts of General Relativit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructed World: Encyclopedia Ii - Constructed World - Construction
An uninhabited world can be useful for certain purposes, but the large majority of constructed worlds are inhabited by one or more intell...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Violin: Encyclopedia Ii - Violin - Violin Construction And Mechanics
Violin - Construction. A violin typically consists of a spruce top, maple ribs and back, a neck, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustic Hawking Radiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustic Hawking Radiation - Historical Dates
1784: John Michell publishes a research paper outlining the light-trapping properties of the Newtonian predecessor of the black hole, (no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Violin: Encyclopedia Ii - Violin - Violin Construction And Mechanics
Violin - Construction. A violin typically consists of a spruce top, maple ribs and back, a neck, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Synthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Synthesis - Synthesis In Electronics And Acoustics
In electronic musical instruments, sound synthesis is the method of sound generation a piece of hardware or software may employ, E.g. "Mu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Construction: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Construction - The Term Social Construction
The first book with "social construction" in its title was Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality, firs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Interference: Encyclopedia Ii - Interference - Constructive And Destructive Interference
When two waves superimpose, the resulting waveform depends on the frequency (or wavelength) amplitude and relative phase of the two waves...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Echo Chamber: Encyclopedia Ii - Echo Chamber - Electro-acoustic Echo Chambers
Development in electronics in the early 20th century -- specifically the invention of the amplifier and the microphone -- led to the crea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructible Polygon: Encyclopedia Ii - Constructible Polygon - Conditions For Constructibility
Some regular polygons are easy to construct with compass and straightedge; others are not. This led to the question being posed: is it po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructible Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Constructible Number - Impossible Constructions
The algebraic characterization of constructible numbers provides an important necessary condition for constructibility: if z is construct...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acoustic Scattering: Oceanography Dictionary - Acoustic Scattering
  Definition and meaning of acoustic scattering:   acoustic scattering - the irregular reflection, refraction, or diffrac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acoustic Tag: Oceanography Dictionary - Acoustic Tag
  Definition and meaning of acoustic tag:   acoustic tag - a sound transmittor attached to an aquatic animal to track its...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acoustic Signature: Oceanography Dictionary - Acoustic Signature
  Definition and meaning of acoustic signature:   acoustic signature - a set of characteristics used to describe a sound ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acoustic Stimulation: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Auditory Stimulation
Acoustic stimulation , Auditory stimulation ,  : Use of sound to elicit a response in the nervous system.   (See also: ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Construct: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Construct
construct 1.    Stable pattern of consciousness. 2.    Intelligently fashioned vehicle manifesting to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarinet: Encyclopedia Ii - Clarinet - History
The clarinet started life as a small instrument called the chalumeau. Not much is known about this instrument, but it may have evolved fr...   » Read the article