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Fistmele, also known as the "brace height", is a term used in archery to describe the distance between a bow and its string. [1] The term itself is a Saxon word (suffix -mele referring to the old form of the archaic sense of meal as "measure") indicating the measure of a clenched hand with the thumb extended.
Samick Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼익악기 KRX: 002450, also known as Samick) is a South Korean musical instrument manufacturer. Founded in 1958 as Samick Pianos, it is now one of the world's largest musical instrument manufacturers and an owner of shares in several musical instrument manufacturing companies.
Diagram showing the parts of a modern recurve bow Arrow rest Where the arrow rests during draw. These may be simple fixed rests or may be spring-loaded or magnetic flip rests. Back The face of the bow on the opposite side to the string Belly The face of the bow on the same side as the string Bow sight An aiming aid attached to the riser Brace ...
A traditional recurve bow has a very linear draw weight curve - meaning that as the bow is drawn back, the draw force becomes heavier with each inch of draw (and most difficult at full draw). Therefore, little energy is stored in the first half of the draw, and much more energy at the end where the draw weight is heaviest.
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The extremes of the meantone systems encountered in historical practice are the Pythagorean tuning, where the whole tone corresponds to 9:8, i.e. (3:2) 2 / 2 , the mean of the major third (3:2) 4 / 4 , and the fifth (3:2) is not tempered; and the 1 ⁄ 3-comma meantone, where the fifth is tempered to the extent that three ...
Figure 1: 53 TET on the syntonic temperament's tuning continuum at 701.89 cents, from Milne, Sethares & Plamondon (2007) [1]. In music, 53 equal temperament, called 53 TET, 53 EDO, or 53 ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 53 equal steps (equal frequency ratios).
A major upgrade: This version discusses the tertian harmonization of the major scale on C, giving fingerings drawn with GNU Lilypond. Errors have been corrected. Copy editing has improved the exposition. 10:54, 30 October 2012: 1,275 × 1,650, 13 pages (233 KB) Kiefer.Wolfowitz: Removed stray parenthesis ")." in abstract.