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In his 1954 paper 'A Conjecture Concerning Rational Points On Cubic Curves', [1] Selmer investigates generators for the rational points on certain cubic curves using two descents. He notes that a method used by Cassels [2] points to an insufficiency in the methods of detecting generators used previously by Selmer. However, the method of Cassels ...
The company was founded as the "H.N. White Company" in 1893 by Henderson White, an engraver and instrument repairman. [1] White designed a trombone for Thomas King, a local player. [1] It became the company's first successful model when it was adopted by Al Pinard, then a famous trombone player. [2]
Henri Selmer Paris is a French enterprise, manufacturer of musical instruments based at Mantes-la-Ville near Paris.Founded in 1885, it is known as a producer of professional-grade woodwind and brass instruments, especially saxophones, clarinets and trumpets.
Conn-Selmer, Inc. is an American manufacturer of musical instruments for concert bands, marching bands and orchestras.It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments and was formed in 2003 by combining the Steinway properties, The Selmer Company and United Musical Instruments.
Bass, electric bass, 6-string bass, contrabass guitar Essentially a 4-string bass with either added high and low strings. Guitar, bass (8-string) 8 strings 4 courses. E 2 E 1 •A 2 A 1 •D 3 D 2 •G 3 G 2: Eight-string bass guitar, 8-string bass US Essentially a 4-string bass with each string doubled at the upper octave. Guitar, bass (12 ...
The "Viennese bass octave" (German: "Wiener Bass-oktave") lasted well into the second half of the 18th century. Gerlach (2007) describes this keyboard arrangement as follows: The notes leading down to F 1 were accommodated on the keys of a "short-scaled octave" from c to C (only F ♯ 1 and G ♯ 1, as well as C ♯ and E ♭ continued to be ...
C. G. Conn Ltd., Conn Instruments or commonly just Conn, is a former American manufacturer of musical instruments incorporated in 1915. It bought the production facilities owned by Charles Gerard Conn, a major figure in early manufacture of brasswinds and saxophones in the USA.
Tuning machines (with spiral metal worm gears) are mounted on the back of the headstock on the bass guitar neck. The standard design for the electric bass guitar has four strings, tuned E, A, D and G, in fourths such that the open highest string, G, is an eleventh (an octave and a fourth) below middle C, making the tuning of all four strings the same as that of the double bass (E 1 –A 1 –D ...