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  2. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Since they are seldom played in concert with other instruments and carillonneurs need standardized sheet music, carillons often transpose to a variety of keys—whichever is advantageous for the particular installation; many transposing carillons weigh little, have many bells, or were constructed on limited funds. [2]

  3. Transposition (transmission lines) - Wikipedia

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    This is typically not symmetrical across phases. By transposing, the overall capacitance for the whole line is approximately balanced. Transposing also reduce effects to communication circuits. [1] Wire transposition on top of pole. A transposing scheme is a pattern by which the conductors of overhead power lines are transposed at transposing ...

  4. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    In this chromatic transposition, the melody on the first line is in the key of D, while the melody on the second line is identical except that it is a major third lower, in the key of B ♭. In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant ...

  5. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    In practice the bottom course (2 strings) is often removed, making the instrument effectively a bajo quinto. Balalaika, alto 3 strings 3 courses. E 3 E 3 A 3: Alto Russia See Ekkel (1997) for all Balalaika tunings. [5] Balalaika, bass 3 strings 3 courses. Standard: E 2 A 2 D 3. Old orchestral: E 2 A 2 E 3; Bass Russia Balalaika, contrabass 3 ...

  6. Contra-alto clarinet - Wikipedia

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    The contra-alto clarinet [2] is largely a development of the 2nd half of the 20th century, although there were some precursors in the 19th century: . In 1829, Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Streitwolf [], an instrument maker in Göttingen, introduced an instrument tuned in F in the shape and fingering of a basset horn, which could be called a contrabasset horn because it played an octave lower than it.

  7. Dress Codes: Why Santa Claus wears a red and white suit - AOL

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    Editor’s Note: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes is a new series investigating how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. Red velvet ...

  8. Why nutrition experts don't recommend eating raw potatoes - AOL

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    But cooking potatoes nearly eradicates them while still offering health benefits — including improving the digestive, cardiovascular, muscular and nervous systems — making cooked potatoes the ...

  9. Capo (musical device) - Wikipedia

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    Spring clamp capo A guitar capo with a lever-operated over-centre locking action clamp Demonstrating the peg removal feature on an Adagio guitar capo. A capo (/ ˈ k eɪ p oʊ ˌ k æ-ˌ k ɑː-/ KAY-poh, KAH-; short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto [ˌkapoˈtasto], Italian for "head of fretboard") [a] is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument ...