Dictionary - Tune In: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Tune In
tune in To get in touch with one's deepest self or with others, to focus   (See also: Tune in , Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Tune In: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Tune In
TUNE IN - v. to get in touch with one’s deepest self or with others, to focus. (NAD)   (See also: TUNE IN , Wiccan Pagan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Engine Tuning: Encyclopedia Ii - Engine Tuning - Perfomance Tuning
Performance tuning focusses on the tuning of an engine for motor sport, although many cars built by hobbyists never compete but are rathe...   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality At Work: "tuning In" To Your Conscience  
When Debra managed a software development department years ago, she often gave her employees the motherly advice that "an ounce o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cent Music: Encyclopedia - Cent Music
The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals. Typically cents are used to measure extremely small intervals, or t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Care And Maintenance Of Pianos: Encyclopedia - Care And Maintenance Of Pianos
The piano requires various forms of maintenance to produce its best sound. Maintenance is also important for the appearance of the piano....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pentatonic Scale: Encyclopedia - Pentatonic Scale
In music, a pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes per octave. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found all over the world, i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viol: Encyclopedia - Viol
The viol or viola da gamba is a family of musical instruments and is related to and descending from the vihuela and rebec. Viol - History...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viola: Encyclopedia - Viola
The viola (in French, 'alto'; in German 'Bratsche') is a stringed musical instrument which serves as the middle voice of the violin famil...   » 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 - Vfo: Encyclopedia - Vfo
VFO is an acronym for Variable Frequency Oscillator. A variable frequency oscillator is needed in any radio receiver or transmitter that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stretched Tuning: Encyclopedia Ii - Stretched Tuning - Effects On Tuning
Inharmonicity "stretches" harmonics beyond their theoretical frequencies, and higher harmonics are stretched proportionally more than low...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuging Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuging Tune - Fuging Tunes And Fugues
The terms "fugue" and "fuging tune" have lead to confusion. A fuging tune certainly is not some kind of failed attempt to write a fugue, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuging Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuging Tune - Performance
Most gatherings of shape note singers (currently the principal singers of fuging tunes) find these tunes to be not particularly more diff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuging Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuging Tune - Description
Fuging tunes are sacred music, specifically, Protestant hymns. They are written for a four-part chorus singing a cappella. George Pullen ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuging Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuging Tune - History
The fuging tune arose in England in the mid eighteenth century. The first fuging tunes were generally the work of itinerant singing maste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Tuning: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Tuning - Comparisons And Controversies Between Tunings
All musical tuning have advantages and disadvantages. Twelve tone equal temperament is the standard and most usual tuning system used in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ninja Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Ninja Tune - Ninja Tune Compilations
A 3 disc version of Xen Cuts was also released (ZENCD 049X) which included Xen Cuts Missed Flipped and Skipped. ... See also:Ninja ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Looney Tunes: Encyclopedia Ii - Looney Tunes - History
The two series were given two separate names because originally, Warner Bros. wanted them to be two separate cartoons series (in the same...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pythagorean Tuning: Encyclopedia Ii - Pythagorean Tuning - Method
Pythagorean tuning is based on a stack of perfect fifths, each tuned in the ratio 3:2, the next simplest ratio after 2:1, which is the ra...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Inner Tuning: Alternative Health Dictionary On Inner Tuning
inner tuning: Group of techniques whose design is synchronization of: (a) the cerebral hemispheres and (b) solar and lunar rhythms. It...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fine-tuned Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Fine-tuned Universe - Explaining Fine-tuned Universe
Fine-Tuning comes with caveats. The fact that a universe with different physical constants might be inhospitable to life as we know it do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tunes Of Glory: Encyclopedia Ii - Tunes Of Glory - Plot
The plot concerns the interactions between Major Jock Sinclair (played by Alec Guinness), the popular acting commanding officer, and his ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fine-tuned Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Fine-tuned Universe - Naturalism And The Fine Tuning Argument
That life as we know it would not be possible if the physical constants of the universe were even slightly different from what they are a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tuning Forks: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Tuning Forks
Tuning Forks Tuning forks are metal instruments with a handle and two prongs or tines. Tuning forks, made of steel, aluminum, or magn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Name That Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Name That Tune - The Different Versions
Name That Tune - 50s Version. The contestants stand across the stage from a large ship bell and the band starts playing tunes. When a c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stretched Tuning: Encyclopedia Ii - Stretched Tuning - Intervals And Inharmonicity
In tuning, the relationship between two notes (known musically as an interval) is determined by evaluating their common harmonics. For ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stretched Tuning: Encyclopedia Ii - Stretched Tuning - Fundamentals And Harmonics
In most musical instruments, the tone-generating component (a string or resonant column of air) vibrates at multiple frequencies simultan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Looney Tunes: Encyclopedia Ii - Looney Tunes - Dubbed Versions
WB has also had controversy over Turner Entertainment’s "dubbed version" prints, used on many pre-1948 cartoons beginning in 1995. Thes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viol: Encyclopedia Ii - Viol - Tuning
The standard tuning of the viol is in 4ths, with a 3rd in the middle (like the standard Renaissance lute tuning). For treble and bass vio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ninja Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Ninja Tune - Solid Steel
Solid Steel is the title of a series of DJ mix CDs, a radio show and live nightclub events showcasing the talents of a number of Ninja Tu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viola: Encyclopedia Ii - Viola - Tuning
Violas are tuned by turning the pegs near the scroll, around which the strings are wrapped. Tightening the string will raise the note (ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viola: Encyclopedia Ii - Viola - Tuning
Violas are tuned by twisting the pegs in the scroll, around which the strings are wrapped. Tightening the string will raise the note (mak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stretched Tuning: Encyclopedia Ii - Stretched Tuning - Vibration Of Wire Strings
When a stretched wire string is excited into motion by plucking or striking, a complex wave travels outward to the ends of the string. As...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xalam: Encyclopedia Ii - Xalam - Construction And Tuning
The xalam, in its standard form, is a simple lute with one to five strings. The wooden body (soundbox) of the instrument is oval-shaped a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Looney Tunes: Encyclopedia Ii - Looney Tunes - Blue Ribbon Reissues
Beginning in the 1940s, WB, in a cost-conserving effort, began to reissue its backlog of cartoons under a new program which they called M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abide With Me: Encyclopedia Ii - Abide With Me - Tune
information taken from http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/b/abidewme.htm The tune most often heard with this hymn is Eventide (.ogg sound f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tcp Tuning: Encyclopedia Ii - Tcp Tuning - Network And System Characteristics
TCP tuning - Bandwidth-delay product BDP. Bandwidth × delay product (BDP) is a term primarily used in conjunction with the TCP to refe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gamelan: Encyclopedia Ii - Gamelan - Tuning
The tuning and construction of a gamelan orchestra is a complex process. Gamelans use four tuning systems: sléndro, pélog, degung (excl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gamelan: Encyclopedia Ii - Gamelan - Tuning
The tuning and construction of a gamelan orchestra is a complex process. Gamelans use four tuning systems: sléndro, pélog, degung (excl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guqin: Encyclopedia Ii - Guqin - Tuning
To string a qin, one traditionally had to tie a butterfly knot (shengtou jie 『蠅頭結』) at one end of the string, and slip the stri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Violin: Encyclopedia Ii - Violin - Tuning
Violins are tuned by turning the pegs, or by winding the fine tuner screws, if present, at the tailpiece. Fine tuners permit the tension ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Violin: Encyclopedia Ii - Violin - Tuning
Violins are tuned by turning the pegs, or by winding the fine tuner screws, if present, at the tailpiece. Fine tuners permit the tension ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Name That Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Name That Tune - Golden Medley All Versions
The Golden Medley is a bonus round where the day's winner attempts to identify seven tunes in 30 seconds or less. Name That Tune - 50s V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fine-tuned Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Fine-tuned Universe - Ikeda-jefferys Argument
A Bayesian probabilistic discussion by mathematician Michael Ikeda and astronomer William H. Jefferys argues that the traditional reasoni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tuned Mass Damper: Encyclopedia Ii - Tuned Mass Damper - Sources Of Vibration And Resonance
Unwanted vibration may be caused by environmental forces acting on a structure, such as wind or earthquake, or by a seemingly innocent vi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fine-tuned Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Fine-tuned Universe - Meaning Of Universe
Both popular and professional research articles in cosmology often use the term "universe" when they really mean "observable universe". T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lute: Encyclopedia Ii - Lute - Tuning Conventions
Lutes were made in a large variety of sizes, with varying numbers of courses, and with no universal standard for tuning. However, the fol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lute: Encyclopedia Ii - Lute - Tuning Conventions
Lutes were made in a large variety of sizes, with varying numbers of courses, and with no permanent standard for tuning. However, the fol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playing The Violin: Encyclopedia Ii - Playing The Violin - Tuning
Violins are tuned by turning the pegs in the pegbox under the scroll, or by winding the fine tuner screws at the tailpiece. A violin alwa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uilleann Pipes: Encyclopedia Ii - Uilleann Pipes - Tuning
The instrument most typically is tuned in the key of D, although "flat" sets do exist in other keys, such as C#, C, B and Bb. The chanter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cello: Encyclopedia Ii - Cello - Tuning And Range
The cello has four strings referred to by their standard tuning, which is in perfect fifth intervals: the C-string, G-string, D-string, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastenders Theme Tune: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastenders Theme Tune - Remixes And Remakes
Due to its popularity, the tune was turned into a song, titled "Anyone Can Fall in Love". The lyrics were created by Don Black, and it wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cello: Encyclopedia Ii - Cello - Tuning And Range
The cello has four strings referred to by their standard tuning, which is in perfect fifth intervals: the C-string, G-string, D-string, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tin Whistle: Encyclopedia Ii - Tin Whistle - Tuning
Tin whistle - Whistle keys. The whistle is tuned diatonically, which allows it to be used to easily play music in two major keys and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enharmonic: Encyclopedia Ii - Enharmonic - Tuning Enharmonics
This is in contrast to meantone intonation—in which the enharmonic equivalents actually do differ slightly in pitch. For example, consi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tin Whistle: Encyclopedia Ii - Tin Whistle - Tuning
Tin whistle - Whistle keys. The whistle is tuned diatonically, which allows it to be used to easily play music in two major keys and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Granny Looney Tunes: Encyclopedia Ii - Granny Looney Tunes - Granny Throughout The Years
Granny first appeared in the 1937 animated short Little Red Walking Hood which featured Egghead, directed by Tex Avery. Her second appear...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Double Bass: Encyclopedia Ii - Double Bass - Tuning
Modern instruments are usually tuned (low to high) E-A-D-G, with the upper G being an octave and a fourth below middle C (approx 98Hz), a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diatonic Genus: Encyclopedia Ii - Diatonic Genus - Tunings Of The Diatonic
The traditional Pythagorean tuning of the diatonic, also known as Ptolemy's "ditonic diatonic", has two identical 9/8 tones in succesion,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Care And Maintenance Of Pianos: Encyclopedia Ii - Care And Maintenance Of Pianos - Tuning
Pianos that are prized by their owners are tuned regularly, roughly once every four to six months for domestic pianos, and always just be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bosko: Encyclopedia Ii - Bosko - Bosko And Looney Tunes
Leon Schlesinger saw the Harman-Ising test film and signed the animators to produce cartoons at their studio for him to sell to Warner Br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitch Class: Encyclopedia Ii - Pitch Class - Pitch Classes In Other Systems Of Tuning
In the case of just intonation, we may express pitches in terms of positive rational numbers p/q, expressed by reference to a 1 (often wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coltrane Changes: Encyclopedia Ii - Coltrane Changes - Tune Up And Countdown
ii V I ii V I | Em7 | A7 | DM7 - | Dm7 | G7 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galaxy Classification: Encyclopedia Ii - Galaxy Classification - The Tuning Fork System
The Hubble "tuning fork" diagram starts from the left with elliptical galaxies as its base. Elliptical galaxies can be named from E0 to E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Just Intonation: Encyclopedia Ii - Just Intonation - Non-western Tuning
In Indian music, the basic unaltered diatonic scale is considered to be 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 27/16, 15/8, 2/1. This would appear prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pid Controller: Encyclopedia Ii - Pid Controller - Tuning A Pid Loop
"Tuning" a control loop is the adjustment of its control parameters (gain/proportional band, integral/reset, derivative/rate) to the opti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Love Of Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Love Of Life - Titles And Theme Tunes
B/W years In the early 1950s, a typical episode began with announcer Don Hancock saying, "Good afternoon. Don Hancock speaking. Welcome t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - L'homme Armé: Encyclopedia Ii - L'homme Armé - Tune Text And Translation
... See also:L'homme armé, L'homme armé - Tune text and translation, L'homme armé - Use in the Latin Mass, L'homme armé - Origin,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fine-tuned Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Fine-tuned Universe - Known Physical Constants And Possible Examples Of Fine Tuning
(Sources for this section: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]) The nuclear strong force holds together the particles in the nucleus of an atom. If ...   » 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 - Harmonic Series Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Harmonic Series Music - Harmonics And Tuning
If the first 15 harmonics are transposed into the span of one octave, they approximate some of the notes in what the West has adopted as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Well-tempered Clavier: Encyclopedia Ii - Well-tempered Clavier - What Tuning Did Bach Intend?
During much of the 20th century it was assumed that Bach wanted equal temperament, which had been described by theorists and musicians fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gott Erhalte Franz Den Kaiser: Encyclopedia Ii - Gott Erhalte Franz Den Kaiser - Later Uses Of The Tune
Long after the composer's death, his melody was used as the tune of Hoffmann von Fallersleben's Das Lied der Deutschen (1841), whose text...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gadulka: Encyclopedia Ii - Gadulka - Construction
The body and neck of the instrument are carved out of one piece of wood, the body forming a bowl or gourd like a lute. The top (soundboar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Just Intonation: Encyclopedia Ii - Just Intonation - The Diatonic Scale In Just Intonation
It is possible to tune the familiar diatonic scale or chromatic scale in just intonation, in many ways, all of which make certain chords ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukulele: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukulele - History
It is commonly associated with music from Hawaii where the name roughly translates as "jumping flea" and was developed there in the 1880s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukulele: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukulele - Audio Samples
... See also:Ukulele, Ukulele - History, Ukulele - Ukulele musicians, Ukulele - Tahitian ukulele, Ukulele - Tuning a Tahitian ukulele...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Merrie Melodies: Encyclopedia Ii - Merrie Melodies - History
Producer Leon Schlesinger had already produced one cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, and its success prompted him to try to sell a sist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Just Intonation: Encyclopedia Ii - Just Intonation - Western Composers Who Specified Just Intonation
Most composers don't specify how instruments are to be tuned, although historically most have assumed one tuning system which was common ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Egghead: Encyclopedia Ii - Egghead - Tv And Animated Characters Named Egghead
Egghead - Looney Tunes' Egghead. Tex Avery had a character at Warner Bros. named Egghead, whom he used in several pictures such as "Daf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viola: Encyclopedia Ii - Viola - The Form Of The Viola
The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin but is larger in size and more variable in its proportions. It is increas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viola: Encyclopedia Ii - Viola - The Form Of The Viola
The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin but is larger in size and more variable in its proportions. It is increas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meantone Temperament: Encyclopedia Ii - Meantone Temperament - Wolf Intervals And Extended Meantones
A whole number of just perfect fifths will never add up to a whole number of octaves, because they are incommensurable (see Fundamental t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Just Intonation: Encyclopedia Ii - Just Intonation - Why Isn't Just Intonation Used Much?
Some fixed just intonation scales and systems, such as the diatonic scale above, produce wolf intervals. The above scale allows a minor t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cuatro: Encyclopedia Ii - Cuatro - The Venezuelan Cuatro
The cuatro of Venezuela has four single nylon strings, tuned from low to high A,D, F#, B. It is similar in shape and tuning to the 'ukule...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daniel Read: Encyclopedia Ii - Daniel Read - Life And Work
Read, along with his contemporaries William Billings, Supply Belcher, and Justin Morgan, was one of the primary members of a group of Ame...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meantone Temperament: Encyclopedia Ii - Meantone Temperament - Meantone Temperaments
The term meantone temperament is sometimes used to refer specifically to quarter-comma meantone. However, systems which flatten the fifth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematics Of Musical Scales: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematics Of Musical Scales - Just Intonation
If we take the ratios constituting a scale in just intonation, there will be a largest prime number to be found among their prime factori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viol: Encyclopedia Ii - Viol - Construction
The viol usually has six strings, although examples with only five strings do exist. It is fretted like a guitar but by means of moveable...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viola: Encyclopedia Ii - Viola - The Viola In Popular Music
The viola also sees little use in popular music. It was sometimes part of popular dance orchestras in the period from about 1890 to 1930,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viola: Encyclopedia Ii - Viola - The Viola In Popular Music
The viola sees limited use in popular music. It was sometimes part of popular dance orchestras in the period from about 1890 to 1930, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modding: Encyclopedia Ii - Modding - Cars And Vehicles
Modding - Orthopedic. Ortho-modding is the car adaption (seats, pedals...) to help drivers to prevent, correct and diminish light ortho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - L'homme Armé: Encyclopedia Ii - L'homme Armé - Use In The Latin Mass
L'homme armé is especially well remembered today because it was so widely used by Renaissance composers as a cantus firmus for the Latin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukulele: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukulele - Tahitian Ukulele
The Tahitian ukulele is significantly different from other ukuleles because it does not have a sound box. The body—including the head a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukulele: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukulele - Ukulele Musicians
Musicians and entertainers, both past and present, particularly known for playing the ukulele include: Ernest Ka'ai "King" Benny Nawahi ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematics Of Musical Scales: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematics Of Musical Scales - Temperament
Western common practice music usually cannot be played in just intonation, even when it is confined to a single key. This is because the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viola: Encyclopedia Ii - Viola - Viola Music
Historically, the viola was used less often used for solo concerti and sonatas than the violin and the cello. This was often attributed t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vfo: Encyclopedia Ii - Vfo - Analogue Vfo
An analogue VFO could be an electronic oscillator where the value of at least one of the active components is adjustable under user contr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tweety Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Tweety Bird - History
Tweety Bird - Creation. Bob Clampett created the character that would become Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties, pitting hi...   » Read the article