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Video of a game of carom billiards The Family Remy by Januarius Zick, c. 1776, featuring billiards among other parlour activities. Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables.
A cue sheet may refer to: Cue sheet (computing) , a text file that details the layout of tracks on a compact disc A list of theatrical cues with timing and volume/intensity information
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English.
Stub templates relating to cue sports stub articles. This category is for stub templates relating to cue sports articles, including pool and various forms of billiards . For snooker , see its own stub types .
In musical notation, a cue note is or cue notes are indications informing players, "of important passages being played by other instruments, such as an entrance after a long period of rest." [ 1 ] A cue may also function as a guideline for another instrument for musical improvisation or if there are many bars rest to help the performer find ...
Bennett and Plummer wrote, with Peter Morrice, the book The Stack and Tilt Swing (ISBN 978-1-592-40447-6).The "Stack and Tilt" model prescribes keeping the body weight forward during the whole swing, straightening the back leg through back swing and performing a steep shoulder turn, all in order to keep the shoulder turn axis in place.
A theatrical cue is the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time. It is generally associated with theatre and the film industry. They can be necessary for a lighting change or effect, a sound effect , or some sort of stage or set movement/change.
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, [1] big ones and little ones, [2] or rarely highs and lows [3]) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls).