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A nocturnal is an instrument used to determine the local time based on the position of a star in the night sky relative to the pole star. As a result of the Earth's rotation , any fixed star makes a full revolution around the pole star in 23 hours and 56 minutes and therefore can be used as an hour hand .
Nocturnal: instrument to determine local time using relative positions of two or more stars in the night sky; Octant: measuring instrument used primarily in navigation; type of reflecting instrument; Optical spectrometer, also known as Spectrograph: instrument to measure the properties of visible light; Orrery: mechanical model of the Solar System
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Bosniak from Sarajevo with a Šargija, 1906. The šargija (Serbo-Croatian: šargija, шаргија; Albanian: sharki or sharkia), anglicized as shargia, is a plucked, fretted long necked lute used in the folk music of various Balkan countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia. [1]
Pages in category "Albanian musical instruments" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Çifteli; D.
Settling a Frontier Dispute by Richard Caton Woodville, 1880.. The main theme of the cycle is the brave warfare between the Albanian heroes (Albanian: kreshnikë or trima, and aga), who have supernatural strength and an extremely large body holding ordinary family lives, and opposing Slavic warriors (Albanian: shkje and krajla), who are likewise powerful and brave, but without besë.
Çifteli vary in size, but are most often tuned to B 3 and E 4 (comparable to the top two strings of a guitar, which is classically tuned as "E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 "). Usually the lower string is played as a drone, with the melody played on the higher string. [3]
The instrument is held vertically between the player's knees, with the left hand fingers on the neck. [5] The strings are never pressed to the neck, giving a harmonic and unique sound. [ 5 ] The most common and traditional version is single-stringed, while a much less-common version is the two-stringed found in Bosanska Krajina and in Lika .