(n.) A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) There is Ed Sheeran , with a guitar and loop pedal, and Chris Martin leaping around the stage with the rest of Coldplay providing a dourer backdrop.
(3) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(4) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
(5) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
(6) "A new generation picking up guitars and drums and saying, 'I'm here!
(7) Unlike many music hack days, this is a commercial contest: the winning hack – as judged by Slash, BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and investor Ben Parr – will earn its creator an autographed guitar, $1,000 and “the chance to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album”.
(8) • The guitar, along with flamenco's signature cry of olé, are believed to be derived from early versions of the instruments brought by the Muslims to Spain.
(9) We went in September and found an annual three-week-long international guitar festival under way.
(10) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
(11) I know that would be an obvious thing to do to promote it, but the thought of strapping a guitar on again and playing all those songs from the past really does fill me with cold dread."
(12) Photograph: Hulton Archive Precisely how Shields achieves his queasy, waking-state guitar sound has long been the subject of stubbly examination.
(13) By 1973, I'd made it to London and I travelled around the UK with just my guitar and the clothes on my back.
(14) Online, you can find a blog by an advertising executive who worked with HMV for 25 years, in which he claims the company's former MD remarked in 2002 that "downloadable music is just a fad", which if it's true may well be music retail's own equivalent of "groups with guitars are on their way out, Mr Epstein".
(15) To the sound of an acoustic guitar and an earnest vocal, it opens with footage of a lonely Ed Miliband, wandering the dark, deserted streets of Westminster.
(16) She took a degree, wrote poetry, had Lord Longford running around for her and guitar lessons.
(17) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
(18) It was McKay who decided to bring guitar music to the dance kids in Ibiza.
(19) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
(20) Asked to define exactly what a music producer did, Ronson gave an example: "Working with someone like Amy Winehouse , she would come to me with just a song on an acoustic guitar and then you'd kind of dream up the rhythm arrangements and the track around it, all sorts of things.
Tailpiece
Definition:
(n.) A piece at the end; an appendage.
(n.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.
(n.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
(n.) A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1H-NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the conformation and dynamics of the isolated tailpiece from human serum immunoglobulin M, a 22-residue peptide containing a single asparagine glycosylation site.
(2) A Ser-rich tailpiece (residues 1918-1938) is apparently nonhelical.
(3) The tailpiece sequence thus has profound effects on assembly, yet it is apparently unstructured and can be bisected without affecting its function.
(4) The other wing, and the plane's tailpiece, hang limp and useless.
(5) The anti-NF-L tailpiece antibody recognized only a limited number of sites along native NFs, but labeled reconstituted NF-L homopolymers uniformly and heavily.
(6) A centrally located highly alpha-helical domain of about 310 residues well-conserved in sequence principles and length is flanked by the highly variable sequences of the non-alpha-helical headpiece and tailpiece.
(7) The cell line is X63.653 transfected with the mu gene, whose tailpiece sequence was replaced with the transmembrane sequence of human EGF receptor to hold mu on the cell surface and whose CH1 sequence was removed to prevent mu from being retained in the endoplasmic reticulum.
(8) Our findings indicate that whereas anti-IFA recognizes the highly conserved rod domain, all the NF-specific antibodies, as well as Bodian's silver, react with the carboxy-terminal tailpiece of NF subunits.
(9) The sequence consolidates the structural principle in which an amino-terminal tailpiece of variable length is followed by a core built from four internally homologous segments for those proteins in the 35-40 kd range.
(10) Things have come on: the tailpiece and fins are now in place and the other wing has been unfurled.
(11) This suggests that the NF-L tailpiece extension is relatively inaccessible in native filaments, but is accessible in reconstituted homopolymers.
(12) We have also generated polyclonal antibodies against this peptide and attempted to localize this portion of the tailpiece along desmin IFs by immunological procedures.
(13) The actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity of myosin II from Acanthamoeba castellanii is regulated by phosphorylation of 3 serines in its 29-residue, nonhelical, COOH-terminal tailpiece, i.e., serines-1489, -1494, and -1499 or, in reverse order, residues 11, 16, and 21 from the COOH terminus.
(14) These results suggest that at least 18 of the 29 residues in the nonhelical tailpiece of the heavy chain are not required for either actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity or filament formation and that phosphorylation of Ser-1489 is sufficient to regulate the actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity of myosin II.
(15) The protease-sensitive tailpiece of protein II is very short and lacks the phosphorylatable tyrosine present in the larger tail domains of p36 and p35.
(16) Antibodies directed against the tailpiece extensions of NF-H and NF-M labeled the sidearms of native NFs and reconstituted filaments containing those two polypeptides, but not the backbone of the filaments.
(17) Thus, a +1 change in the C-terminal region of the albumin molecule produces a variant with the same electrophoretic mobility as an alloalbumin with a +2 substitution in the central domain, suggesting a higher degree of exposure to the solvent of the C-terminal tailpiece.
(18) A unique non-helical tailpiece composed of 72 amino acid residues marks the C-terminus of this neuronal myosin isoform.
(19) They were truncated at various restriction sites and expressed in Escherichia coli, yielding a series of mutant myosin rods with or without the COOH-terminal tailpiece and with serial deletions from their NH2-termini.
(20) Antibodies against a synthetic peptide corresponding to the 21 adjacent amino acids at the beginning of the non-helical tailpiece, which include the three regulatory phosphorylatable serines, had no effect on either activity.