Piano keys each have three strings that, when struck by a felt-covered hammer, make a musical sound. (The exceptions are the bass keys, which have either two strings or one.) Pressing the soft pedal shifts the hammers so only two of the three strings are touched, giving the piano a much softer tone.
It is one of very few all-string orchestras in the U.S., although on occasion it will hire a guest to sing or add a new musical sound.
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"It's like listening to the sound of a musical instrument and then trying to reconstruct the shape of the instrument".
One of the other designs is the Singing Ringing Tree to be built in Burnley, a musical sculpture which incorporates pipes which sound with the wind.
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He arrived at what he considers an ideal blend of traditional African sounds and modern musical aesthetics a sound that perfectly expresses who he is.
Parrot engineers added a proprietary algorithmic processor to this system: the Sound Flex, which respects the musical for a pure and perfectly balanced musical image.
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He leaves behind a sound that helped build a musical movement.
The orchestra, led by musical director Lawrence Yurman, creates a rich sound.
It can be done by ear, but musical notation helps by turning sound into a visual medium, a common language for the consistent creation and sharing of the music.
Mr. WANG: These groups were known collectively as combos nacionales, national groups, and through them a new kind of Panamanian sound emerged, mirroring musical styles as distinct and distant as New York boogaloo, Cuban descarga and Trinidadian calypso.
He has used an edition of the play with the original punctuation of the first performance which he found liberating, and he asked the actors to speak the words as if they were touching a musical instrument so that each rhyme might have a different sound.
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Dakar's Orchestre N'Guewel offers "Mi Guajeo, " and while the opening notes initially sound based on Senegalese musical scales and instrumentation, a deeper listen reveals that the chord progression is based on the classic Cuban son montuno.
The exhibition features for the first time more than 300 objects from Bowie's life, from amazing stage outfits to rare photographs from the early years, videos of outstanding live performances screened in a thunderously loud surround-sound cinema, Bowie's own musical instruments, record cover designs and paintings.
Hollywood producers used to jump at the opportunity to turn a successful musical into the next blockbuster West Side Story and The Sound of Music were winning Tonys long before they won Academy Awards.
And return he did, creating an entirely new sound, one with a fresh perspective and a heightened appreciation for his own musical abilities and instincts.
Here's why Calexico can afford to kick back during sound check: Burns and his longtime musical partner, drummer John Convertino, have assembled a versatile crew of multi-instrumentalists and vocalists from their hometown of Tucson, as well as Madrid and Berlin.
That might sound odd until you learn she is a wardrobe stylist based in Nashville who tours the world with musical acts.
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