wind | ... rum set player. The Headhunters' lineup and instrumentation, retaining only | player Bennie Maupin from Hancock's previous sextet, reflected his new mus ... |
Fender Precision Bass | ... ed Fender Bass VI, most notably for the song "I Miss You". Hoppus also uses | which was first seen in "Dammit", "What's My Age Again?", and "All The Sma ... |
Gibson Les Paul | ... tarist James Hetfield has a custom version of the ESP Eclipse (based on the | ) with the Iron Cross emblazoned on it. This version is known as the "ESP ... |
Galician gaita | ... a. The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, | s, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and ... |
Cathedral of Notre Dame | ... the novel was to shame the City of Paris into restoring the much-neglected | , which was attracting thousands of tourists who had read the popular nove ... |
Cologne cathedral | ... o be a pupil of William Morris – he made known that he would have preferred | unfinished, with the 14th-century wooden crane on top of it, as it stood i ... |
Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule | Leopold Mozart’s | (1756), for example, provides an indication of the state of vibrato in str ... |
flute | The work is scored for 3 | s (all doubling on piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd doubles English horn), 3 clarine ... |
E-flat clarinet | ... oes (3rd doubles English horn), 3 clarinets in B-flat (1st and 2nd doubling | ), bass clarinet in B-flat, alto saxophone in E-flat, 3 bassoons (3rd doub ... |
Cretan lyra | ... in various regions in Greece—in particular, the Dodecanese and Crete (e.g. | )—and the northern mainland regions of Macedonia and Thrac |
dulcimer | ... sound sad and mournful or bright and bouncy” The fiddle, the German derived | , the Italian mandolin, the Spanish guitar, and the West African banjo wer ... |
Brass instrument | | players may produce vibrato by gently shaking the horn which varies the pr ... |
great organ | The works included a major rebuilding of the | , originally built by "Father" Henry Willis in 1871 and rebuilt by Harriso ... |
organ | ... e trumpets, trombone, drums, cymbals, harp, two violins, basso continuo and | ). Pachelbel explores a very wide range of styles: psalm settings (Gott is ... |
drums | ... t McCartney and the other Beatles tried a variety of instruments, including | and an organ, and that George Martin later persuaded them to allow McCartn ... |
Epiphone Texan | ... and that George Martin later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play his | steel-string acoustic guitar, later on editing-in a string quartet for bac ... |
Wagner tuba | ... including a greatly enlarged brass section with new instruments such as the | , bass trumpet and contrabass trombone. Remarkably, he uses a chorus only ... |
Red Special | During the time in which Brian May and his father were building the | , May also produced plans to build a second guitar. However, so successful ... |
Steel guitar | ... tatus Quo song "Pictures of Matchstick Men", their highest-charting single. | ist, guitarist and mandolin player David Immerglück (of the Ophelias) join ... |
Water drum | ... etched over a hole in the ground, and the pot drum, made from a simple pot. | s are also sometimes treated as a distinct category of membranophone. Comm ... |
Wagner tuba | ... . Wagner even commissioned the production of new instruments, including the | , invented to fill a gap he found between the tone qualities of the horn a ... |
Lowrey organ | ... ngs. Hudson in particular was able to coax a wide range of timbres from his | ; on the choruses of "Tears of Rage", for example, it sounds like a mellot ... |
Byzantine lyra | ... he 9th century, in his lexicographical discussion of instruments, cited the | as the Byzantine instrument equivalent to the bowed rebab of the Islamic e ... |
amplification | ... fifth interval, usually played on electric guitar, and typically through an | process that imparts distortion. Power chords are a key element of many st ... |
Wagner tuba | ... ssors, such as the ophicleide, or, less correctly, the bass trumpet, or the | , both of which are significantly different instruments, and still in use ... |
Paganini Quartet | ... of Mirecourt 1820 (guitar). Four of these instruments are now played by the | |
ESP Eclipse | ... allica lead singer and guitarist James Hetfield has a custom version of the | (based on the Gibson Les Paul) with the Iron Cross emblazoned on it. This ... |
Gibson Kalamazoo Electric Guitar | ... r 11, 1902, by the craftsman Orville Gibson. One budget model was named the | . Operations were moved gradually from Kalamazoo to Nashville, Tennessee, ... |
horns | ... -flat, alto saxophone in E-flat, 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), 4 | in F, 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion (8 players), timpani, ... |
St Paul's Cathedral | ... at the time of his death. He was buried in a sarcophagus of luxulyanite in | next to Lord Nelson |
gopichand | ... e resonators, has led to many variations, such as the dan bau (Vietnam) and | (India), and more recently, the "electric one-string", which amplifies the ... |
woodwinds | ... time of Haydn and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, | , and brass. However, often at least one pair of timpani is included, thou ... |
shakers | ... e up of percussion surdos, tambourines, and cuícas, who joined pandeiro and | . This group was instrumental and is called bateria, and it lends itself t ... |
horn | ... English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 | s in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass ... |
Washburn RR2V | ... erent electric guitars: a Stratocaster copy on "Play the Game" (1980) and a | on "Princes of the Universe" (1986) |
Église Saint-Roch | ... for the final time and died at his home in Paris in 1684. His grave in the | went without a monument until 1821 |
organ | ... pleting the fourth series on BBC Two. These feature Johann Sebastian Bach's | works, filmed in performance by John Scott Whiteley on, mainly, authentic ... |
kora | ... he gyil. Ostinato figures are also played on string instruments such as the | , gankoqui bell ensembles, and ensembles of differently pitched drums. Ver ... |
Epiphone Texan | Ostensibly simple, featuring only McCartney playing an | steel-string acoustic guitar backed by a string quartet in one of the Beat ... |
subcontrabass | ... 6 Sax had designed, on paper, a full range of saxophones (from sopranino to | ). Although they never became standard orchestral instruments, the saxopho ... |
C melody saxophone | Because of tone quality issues, some C (concert pitch) instruments — the | , C soprano saxophone, and C soprano clarinet, for example — have declined ... |
koto | ... ing music on a lap drum. From the seventeenth century they often played the | or the shamisen. Goze organizations sprung up throughout the land, and exi ... |
organ | During his lifetime, Pachelbel was best known as an | composer. He wrote more than two hundred pieces for the instrument, both l ... |
Northumbrian smallpipes | ... r Beardsley, Michael Carrick and Alan Shearer. John Dunn, inventor of keyed | , the most characteristic musical instrument in the region, lived and work ... |
Fender Bass VI | ... Hoppus was seen using one other bass guitar live on stage: the six-stringed | , most notably for the song "I Miss You". Hoppus also uses Fender Precisio ... |
bells | ... th centuries to see harmonicas with special features on the covers, such as | , which could be rung by pushing a button |
serpent | ... euphonium traces its ancestry to the ophicleide and ultimately back to the | . The search for a satisfactory foundational wind instrument that could su ... |
horn | ... ese, the orchestra consists of pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, | s, trumpets, a set of two timpani, and strings. The aria, "Sorrow has beco ... |
Fender Mark Hoppus Jazz Bass | Hoppus has been seen using his signature | in a variety of different colors since the days of Blink-182. Though consi ... |
drums | ... vocals), Oliver "Ollie" Riedel (bass guitar), Christoph "Doom" Schneider ( | and electronic percussion) and Christian "Flake" Lorenz (keyboards). They ... |
soprano | ... example — have declined in popularity in favor of the standard versions (B | and tenor saxophone; B and A clarinets) |
sopranino | ... 1842. By 1846 Sax had designed, on paper, a full range of saxophones (from | to subcontrabass). Although they never became standard orchestral instrume ... |
Mellotron | ... upon. The album's sound saw OMD's original synth-pop sound augmented by the | , an instrument previously associated with prog rock bands. They used it t ... |
distortion | ... , aggressive rock music. The electric guitar is often emphasised, used with | and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with ... |
Il Cannone Guarnerius | ... e refused to take it back. This particular violin would come to be known as | . On a later occasion in Parma, he won another valuable violin (also by Gu ... |
Cretan lyra | ... s seated, the instrument's base rests on the player's upper left thigh. The | is the dominant instrument of the traditional music of Crete and is tradit ... |
Fender Mark Hoppus Jazz Bass | Recently, Mark has announced that his signature | has been picked up and is in production and will be available this spring. ... |
Hohner D6 Clavinet | ... udio by several Moog synthesizers. The ARP Odyssey, ARP String Ensemble and | also became popular at the time. A third feature is the shift of proportio ... |
drums | Phil Collins played | and sang backing vocals on Grace and Danger and subsequently played drums ... |
cowbell | ... unds," “the ticky snare, the tishy hi-hats (open and closed) and the spacey | .” The Roland TR-808 would eventually be used on more hit records than any ... |
organ | ... ray went to Rouen to study music with the abbots Bourgeois and Bourdon, and | with Haelling. This prepared him to enter the Paris Conservatoire. In 1911 ... |
St Paul's Cathedral | ... n route E15) broadly follows the path of the historic Great North Road from | in the heart of London, through Peterborough (Junction 17), continuing nor ... |
Ibanez RG | All of Holland's | bodies are made out of mahogany and fitted with DiMarzio Super Distortion ... |
harmonics | ... notes, for instance, may be played on an open string, a fretted string, via | , and using a nonstandard technique such as scraping the string with the p ... |
acoustic guitar | The instrumentation of the recordings was primarily | , occasionally accompanied by brief electric guitar riffs or a small drum ... |
shakers | ... e center of the wheel). The instruments of the Bahian samba were pandeiros, | , guitars, and sometimes the castanets and berimbaus |
Fou | ... inese art and culture dominated the ceremony. It opened with the beating of | drums for the countdown. Subsequently, a giant scroll was unveiled and bec ... |
Byzantine lyra | # a pear-shaped instrument descendant of the | with a vaulted back which is found in various regions in Greece—in particu ... |
drums | ... Main Ballcourt at Tenochtitlan contained miniature whistles, ocarinas, and | . A pre-Columbian ceramic from western Mexico shows what appears to be a w ... |
Guitar amplifier | ... d in plate reverbs, to create and capture vibrations within a metal spring. | s frequently incorporate spring reverbs due to their compact construction ... |
Byzantine bowed lyre | ... ear records of the use of crwth to denote an instrument of the lyre (or the | ) class date from the 11th century. Medieval instruments somewhat resembli ... |
acoustic guitar | ... , Smith began playing the piano, and at 10 began learning guitar on a small | bought for him by his father. At this age he also composed an original pia ... |
distortion | ... lectric guitar, and typically through an amplification process that imparts | . Power chords are a key element of many styles of rock music |
Soil Stradivarius | Perlman plays using the antique | violin of 1714, formerly owned by Yehudi Menuhin and considered to be one ... |
snare | ... ized the TR-808: a deep bass kick drum, "tinny handclap sounds," “the ticky | , the tishy hi-hats (open and closed) and the spacey cowbell.” The Roland ... |
Byzantine lyra | ... e Empire the term lyra or lyre (Greek: λύρα) was used to describe the bowed | (Greek: λύρα—lūrā ), a pear-shaped bowl lyre with 3 strings, sounded by a ... |
American Piano Company (Ampico) | During this time, Grofé also recorded piano rolls for the | company in New York. These captured performances were embellished with add ... |
distorted | ... age rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of | electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with pianos an ... |
Hardanger fiddle | ... ernationally known author Hans Herbjørnsrud who was born in Heddal, and the | maker Olav Gunnarsson Helland (1875–1939) who many consider the finest of ... |
organ | Two | s are installed in the Cathedral. The main organ was built by the Steinmey ... |
Red Special | Aided by the uniqueness of his guitar – the | – May was often able to create strange and unusual sound effects. For exam ... |
distortion | When two or more notes are played through a | process which non-linearly transforms the audio signal, additional harmoni ... |
Youssou N'Dour | In 2004 Senegalese musician | released his Grammy Award winning album Egypt, which documents his Mouride ... |
music box | ... akers playing children's music. Ice cream vans in the United Kingdom make a | noise rather than actual music |
Waits | ... hat were common in towns throughout Europe playing courtly dance music. See | |
Red Special | Most of May's electric guitar work live and in the studio was done on the | , which he built with his father during his teenage years. From 1975 onwar ... |
Cretan lyra | ... n Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Turkey; a notable example is Crete, where the | is central to the traditional music of the island |
organ | ... of Cordoba in Islamic Spain. In Rheims, he constructed a hydraulic-powered | with brass pipes that excelled all previously known instruments, where the ... |
St Paul's Cathedral | ... " is still held by the two senior members of the College of Minor Canons of | |
Rickenbacker 4001CS | ... by the aggressive picked tone he developed with his Chris Squire Signature | , which can clearly be heard on Tool's first full length album, Undertow |
organ | ... nd the other Beatles tried a variety of instruments, including drums and an | , and that George Martin later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play h ... |
Scraper | ... ing objects are mallets, hammers, and sticks. Rattle idiophones are shaken. | idiophones are instruments that are scraped with a stick or other foreign ... |
brass | ... nd Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, and | . However, often at least one pair of timpani is included, though they rar ... |
drum pads | ... other instruments. Samplers have also been taken live by playing samples on | or synthesizers, assigning samples to a specific drum pad or key. MCs are ... |
Violone | ... pieces for the double bass. The double bass, then often referred to as the | used different tunings from region to region. The "Viennese tuning" (A 1 - ... |
C-melody saxophone | ... nd it put Beiderbecke in touch with another musician he had met before: the | player Frankie Trumbauer. The two hit it off, both personally and musicall ... |