Performance tuning focusses on the tuning of an engine for motor sport, although many cars built by hobbyists never compete but are rather built for display at motor shows or the simple pleasure of owning and driving such a car. In this context (and depending on the particular event), the power output, torque and responsiveness of the engine are of premium importance, but reliability and economy are also relevant. To win, a car must complete the event. This means the engine must be strong enough to do so, often far stronger than the produ ...

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Engine tuning, Engine tuning - Perfomance tuning

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Fuging tune, Fuging tune - Description, Fuging tune - Variety in fuging tunes, Fuging tune - History, Fuging tune - Fuging tunes and fugues, Fuging tune - Performance, Fuging tune - Footnote, Fuging tune - Books, Fuging tune - External link

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Inharmonicity "stretches" harmonics beyond their theoretical frequencies, and higher harmonics are stretched proportionally more than lower. Thus, in our example of an octave, exactly matching the lowest common harmonic causes a slight amount of stretch, matching the next higher common harmonic causes a greater amount of stretch, and so on. If the interval is a double octave, exactly matching the upper note to the fourth harmonic of the lower complicates the tuni ...

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Stretched tuning, Stretched tuning - Fundamentals and harmonics, Stretched tuning - Intervals and inharmonicity, Stretched tuning - Vibration of wire strings, Stretched tuning - Tines and reeds, Stretched tuning - Effects on tuning, Stretched tuning - References and further information

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When Debra managed a software development department years ago, she often gave her employees the motherly advice that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This wise, old saying is most applicable when it comes to tuning in to our conscience. Unfortunately, most of us are not aware of our conscience until it "bothers" us. By then, we are typically engaged in difficulties that require extra time and energy to clear up. And yet, it is possible to pro-actively tune in to our conscience, allowing it to be our daily friend and guide.

Why should we bother to tune in to our conscience at work?

See also: Spirituality At Work, Work As A Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Based Leadership)

The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals. Typically cents are used to measure extremely small intervals, or to compare the sizes of comparable intervals in different tuning systems, and in fact the interval of one cent is much too small to be heard between successive notes. 1200 cents are equal to one octave — a frequency ratio of 2:1 — and an equally tempered semitone (two adjacent piano keys) is equal to 100 cents. This means that a cent is precisely equal to 21/1200, the 120 ...

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The piano requires various forms of maintenance to produce its best sound. Maintenance is also important for the appearance of the piano. 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 before a performance in concert halls. This is done partly for esthetic reasons, and partly because the longer a piano is left out of tune, the more time and effort technician will need to restore it to co ...

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• Care and maintenance of pianos - Tuning
• Care and maintenance of pianos - Voicing
• Care and maintenance of pianos - Regulation
• Care and maintenance of pianos - Appearance
• Care and maintenance of pianos - Restoration

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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, including but not limited to the tuning of the Ethiopian krar and the Indonesian gamelan, the melodies of African-American spirituals, Celtic folk music and the music of French composer Claude Debussy. Pentatonic scale - Types of pentatonic scales. One of the most common pentatonic scales, sometimes called a major pentatonic scale or primary pentatonic scale ( ...

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• Pentatonic scale - Types of pentatonic scales
• Pentatonic scale - Tuning
• Pentatonic scale - Further pentatonic musical traditions
• Pentatonic scale - Hemitonic or anhemitonic

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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. It is thought that vihuelists began playing their instruments with a bow in the 15th century. This eventually led to the evolution of an entirely new instrument, which had many of the features of the vihuela: flat back, frets and arched bridge (hence its Spanish name vihuela de arco), but was bowed rather than plucked. This new instrument began to be held u ...

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• Viol - History
• Viol - Construction
• Viol - Viol bows
• Viol - Versions
• Viol - Tuning
• Viol - Popularity
• Viol - The viol today

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Most gatherings of shape note singers (currently the principal singers of fuging tunes) find these tunes to be not particularly more difficult to sing than shape note music in general; the regular spacing of the entries makes it usually fairly clear when a section should come in. Fuging tunes are a bit harder, however, for the leader, who must coordinate the fuging entrances. Some advice for leaders is posted here. ...

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Fuging tune, Fuging tune - Description, Fuging tune - Variety in fuging tunes, Fuging tune - History, Fuging tune - Fuging tunes and fugues, Fuging tune - Performance, Fuging tune - Footnote, Fuging tune - Books, Fuging tune - External link

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Fuging tunes are sacred music, specifically, Protestant hymns. They are written for a four-part chorus singing a cappella. George Pullen Jackson has described the fuging tune as follows: "In the fuging tune all the parts start together and proceed in rhythmic and harmonic unity usually for the space of four measures or one musical sentence. The end of this sentence marks a cessation, a complete melodic close. During the next four measures the four parts set in, one at a time and one measure apart. First the basses take th ...

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Fuging tune, Fuging tune - Description, Fuging tune - Variety in fuging tunes, Fuging tune - History, Fuging tune - Fuging tunes and fugues, Fuging tune - Performance, Fuging tune - Footnote, Fuging tune - Books, Fuging tune - External link

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The fuging tune arose in England in the mid eighteenth century. The first fuging tunes were generally the work of itinerant singing masters, described by Irving Lowens (see references below) as follows: "[The singing masters were] often ill-trained by orthodox standards ... [They] wandered from village to village and eked out an existence by teaching the intricacies of psalm-singing and the rudiments of music to all who cared to learn. To supplement his generally meager income, [the singing master] frequently sold self-compiled tune-books in which psalm tunes of his own composition ... were featured as exam ...

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Fuging tune, Fuging tune - Description, Fuging tune - Variety in fuging tunes, Fuging tune - History, Fuging tune - Fuging tunes and fugues, Fuging tune - Performance, Fuging tune - Footnote, Fuging tune - Books, Fuging tune - External link

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All musical tuning have advantages and disadvantages. Twelve tone equal temperament is the standard and most usual tuning system used in western music today because it gives the advantage of modulation to any key without dramatically going out of tune, as all keys are equally and slightly out of tune. However, just intonation provides the advantage of being entirely in tune, with at least some, and possible a great deal, loss in ease of modulation. Referring to 12-tet the composer Terry Riley, who has written music for both tuning systems, h ...

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Musical tuning, Musical tuning - Subjects in general, Musical tuning - Ways of tuning the twelve-note chromatic scale, Musical tuning - Tunings of other scale systems, Musical tuning - Comparisons and controversies between tunings

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A 3 disc version of Xen Cuts was also released (ZENCD 049X) which included Xen Cuts Missed Flipped and Skipped. ...

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Ninja Tune, Ninja Tune - Artists, Ninja Tune - Ninja Tune Compilations, Ninja Tune - Solid Steel

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The two series were given two separate names because originally, Warner Bros. wanted them to be two separate cartoons series (in the same manner that Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies were separate from the Mickey Mouse series). In the beginning years, both Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies drew their storylines from Warner's vast music library. However, eventually the two series distinguished themselves by Looney Tunes becoming the umbrella for the studio's various recurring characters, while Merrie ...

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Looney Tunes, Looney Tunes - History, Looney Tunes - Controversy, Looney Tunes - Blue Ribbon reissues, Looney Tunes - Dubbed versions, Looney Tunes - Characters

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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 ratio of an octave. The two notes A and D, for example, are tuned so that their frequencies are in the ratio 3:2 — if D is tuned to 200 Hz, then the A is tuned to 300 Hz. The E a fifth above that A is also tuned in the ratio 3:2 — with the A at 300 Hz, this puts the E at 450 Hz, 9:4 above the original D. When describing tunings, it is usual to speak of all notes as being within an octave of each other, an ...

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Pythagorean tuning, Pythagorean tuning - Method, Pythagorean tuning - Discography, Pythagorean tuning - Source

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The plot concerns the interactions between Major Jock Sinclair (played by Alec Guinness), the popular acting commanding officer, and his replacement Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow (John Mills). The two men are opposites, Sinclair being a self-made, rowdy, hard-drinking man who runs the barracks his own way, having worked his way up from a common piper. Barrow is an artistcratic, by-the-book, reserved officer from a long line of barracks COs. However, as a prisoner of war he had endured torture that left him a privately deeply troubled man. ...

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Tunes of Glory, Tunes of Glory - Plot, Tunes of Glory - Critical response

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Name That Tune - 50s Version. The contestants stand across the stage from a large ship bell and the band starts playing tunes. When a contestant knows the tune s/he runs across the stage to "ring the bell and name that tune!" Four tunes were played every game. Each tune was worth incresing dollar amounts: Tune #1 - $5 Tune #2 - $10 Tune #3 - $20 Tune #4 - $40 The player with the most money after four tunes wins the game & goes on to the bonus game called "The Golden Medley". ...

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Name That Tune, Name That Tune - The Different Versions, Name That Tune - 50s Version, Name That Tune - 70s & 80s Versions, Name That Tune - Golden Medley All Versions, Name That Tune - 50s Version, Name That Tune - 70s & 80s Versions, Name That Tune - Name That Video, Name That Tune - Foreign Versions

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Fine-Tuning comes with caveats. The fact that a universe with different physical constants might be inhospitable to life as we know it does not necessarily mean that it is inhospitable to any form of life. Currently, there is no way of experimentally determining if a universe allows for life or not. Further, most of this universe, especially the interstellar vacuum, appears to be devoid of life; other physical constants may ...

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Fine-tuned universe, Fine-tuned universe - Nature of the constants, Fine-tuned universe - Meaning of universe, Fine-tuned universe - Known physical constants and possible examples of fine tuning, Fine-tuned universe - Explaining fine-tuned universe, Fine-tuned universe - Naturalism and the fine tuning argument, Fine-tuned universe - Naturalistic fine-tuned universe arguments, Fine-tuned universe - Ikeda-Jefferys argument

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In tuning, the relationship between two notes (known musically as an interval) is determined by evaluating their common harmonics. For example, we say two notes are an octave apart when the fundamental frequency of the upper note exactly matches the second harmonic of the lower note. Theoretically, this means the fundamental frequency of the upper note is exactly twice that of the lower note, and we would assume that the second harmonic of the upper note will exactly match the fourth harmonic of the lower note. On instruments strung with metal wire, however, neither ...

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Stretched tuning, Stretched tuning - Fundamentals and harmonics, Stretched tuning - Intervals and inharmonicity, Stretched tuning - Vibration of wire strings, Stretched tuning - Tines and reeds, Stretched tuning - Effects on tuning, Stretched tuning - References and further information

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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 and may appear to be "fine-tuned" is an uncontroversial position within the mainstream scientific community. But conclusions drawn from that observation or appeals to the improbability of life that some intelligence intentionally "fine-tuned" the universe for life are not widely accepted. There is controversy over whether such conclusions can even be considered within natural scien ...

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Fine-tuned universe, Fine-tuned universe - Nature of the constants, Fine-tuned universe - Meaning of universe, Fine-tuned universe - Known physical constants and possible examples of fine tuning, Fine-tuned universe - Explaining fine-tuned universe, Fine-tuned universe - Naturalism and the fine tuning argument, Fine-tuned universe - Naturalistic fine-tuned universe arguments, Fine-tuned universe - Ikeda-Jefferys argument

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