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Megger site in Dover, England, UK. Megger Group Limited (also known as Megger) is a British manufacturing company that manufactures electronic test equipment and measuring instruments for electrical power applications.
Fiddlesticks are traditional instruments used to add percussion to old-time and Cajun fiddle music, allowing two people to play the fiddle at the same time. While the fiddler plays in normal fashion, a second person uses a pair of straws, sticks, or knitting needles to tap out a rhythm on the strings over the upper fingerboard (between the bow ...
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
The Practical Astronomer: Comprising Illustrations of Light and Colours—practical Descriptions of All Kinds of Telescopes—the Use of the Equatiorial Transit, Circular, and Other Astronomical Instruments; a Particular Account of the Earl of Rosse's Large Telescopes and Other Topics Connected with Astronomy. Biddle. p. 352.
This is a list of medieval musical instruments used in European music during the Medieval period. It covers the period from before 1150 to 1400 A.D. It covers the period from before 1150 to 1400 A.D. There may be some overlap with Renaissance musical instruments; Renaissance music begins in the 15th century.
Most modern Western musical instruments are tuned in the equal temperament system. Tempering is the process of altering the size of an interval by making it narrower or wider than pure. "Any plan that describes the adjustments to the sizes of some or all of the twelve fifth intervals in the circle of fifths so that they accommodate pure octaves ...
Nyckelharpa, Swedish for 'key-harp (lit.) ', meaning roughly "keyed fiddle" (Swedish: [ˈnʏ̂kːɛlˌharːpa], plural nyckelharpor, compare tagelharpa), is a "keyed" bowed chordophone, primarily originating from Sweden in its modern form, but with its roots in medieval Europe.
The goje is commonly used to accompany song, and is usually played as a solo instrument, although it also features prominent in ensembles with other West African string, wind or percussion instruments, including the Shekere, calabash drum, talking drum, or Ney.