(n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
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(1) Calculated results indicate that the experimentally observed low-frequency modes at 22 cm-1 for the A-form octanucleotide (d[CCCCGGGG]) and at 18 cm-1 for the B-form dodecanucleotide (d[CGCAA ATTTGCG]) may result from accordion-like motions, while those observed at 12 cm-1 and 15 cm-1 may result from combinations of twist-like oscillations excited in the intact segments of B- and A-DNA's, respectively.
(2) Ventilation was measured with a spirometer or with a pneumatic thoracic transducer: an accordion shaped balloon, strapped around the thorax.
(3) "Tejano" is Spanish for "Texan" while "Conjunto" means "group" or "ensemble", and the music made across this festival focuses on the accordion as the voice of cultural expression and Tejano pride.
(4) The band wanted to talk about their adventurous musical policy more than their lyrics (they mix brassy banda styles with accordion-based norteno ballads) but agreed that narcocorrido was crucial for their success.
(5) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.
(6) The defining sound of forró is in the accordion, an instrument favoured the world over by travellers and street musicians.
(7) The musician's website says he has "defined" norteño music, which is known for its use of the accordion and bajo sexto.
(8) Founded in 1919, shortly after the first world war, Maugein employed around 300 workers by 1939 and was producing hundreds of accordions every year.
(9) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(10) On a stage in a country town square, the accordion band struck up Edith Piaf's bitter-sweet love song, La Vie en Rose .
(11) Sertanejo – Brazilian country music – is king in this area, yet its inhabitants are seeking solace from accordion-led country-pop with power-rock trio Macaco Bong.
(12) When you're waiting for the arrival of the procession in the strikingly silent environs of the local rice fields, it acts as a kind of siren, heralding the approach of The Run with the aid of violins, acoustic guitars and the inevitable accordions.
(13) Alys North choreographed a dance performed by 70 young people in Durham Market Place this lunchtime, and says events are still on in the square until 3pm - there are circus performers, accordion players and female comedians, alongside campaigners who have been talking about women’s issues, including services for rape survivors, the trafficking of women, sexism in popular music and gender stereotypes in the toy market.
(14) The phase-3 and phase-4 block as well as the accordion effect in the Kent bundle were similar to the same phenomena previously described in patients with diseased or in dogs with injured intraventricular conducting fascicles.
(15) The Maugein factory makes the accordions from scratch and had a turnover of €800,000 in 2012.
(16) Fortaleza has a very strong local roots music scene, dominated by the style forró, a stripped down but upbeat type of dance music, usually played by a trio featuring accordion, triangle and zambua (bass drum).
(17) The music marked the return of the accordion to French politics, not seen since the faux-rustic former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing played it in the 1970s – an important message about Hollande's rural, Mr Normal image.
(18) I took to hugging strangers for emotional support during Marz and by the time his final song, Queen of Denmark, finished, I was so overwhelmed I spent the next hour sitting in the Green Fields listening to hippies playing the accordion.
(19) Perla had a tiny, four-string pink guitar that looked like a toy, her sisters Rozika and Franziska played on quarter-sized violins, Frieda struck on the cimbalom, Micki played both a half-sized cello and accordion, while the energetic Elizabeth took on the drums.
(20) Often cryptic, sometimes boring, Carax nevertheless has a showman's touch, and though his films deal with navel-gazing issues – blocked artists are a recurring motif – it's hard to think of another film-maker whose work features hair-eating leprechauns, accordion blues solos and Kylie Minogue.
Harmonium
Definition:
(n.) A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.
Example Sentences:
(1) He and his group - singers, harmonium and tabla players - were supposed to play an hour but went on for much longer.
(2) Trip the light fantastic: Edinburgh's Harmonium Project – in pictures Read more “Then it becomes a very high octane rewind to the origins of the universe.
(3) It’s not merely that the trio’s sound is wildly eclectic and inventive, although it is: over the course of its 34 minutes, Dead variously offers nagging melodies, electronic experimentation, wheezing harmoniums, pounding beats that sound like they were inspired by 70s art-punks Suicide, and a hint of the rhythmic clatter of South African Shagaan electro.
(4) Deep Time has been devised by 59 Productions , the Tony award winners who created last year’s opening festival event, the Harmonium Project , which was beamed on to the Usher Hall, as well as the video sequences for the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony and light show events for Boeing, the UN and Sydney Opera House .
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Harmonium Project, also created by 59 Productions, was beamed on to Usher Hall during last year’s Edinburgh festival.