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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 .
The baroque guitar (c.1600–1750) was a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course was sometimes a single string. It replaced the Renaissance lute as the most common instrument found in the home.
Tallava or Talava is a music genre originating from Albanian-speaking Roma communities in Kosovo as well as in North Macedonia, with a presence in Albania. [1] [2] [3] Having originated in the Roma community in Kosovo in the 1990s, it evokes regional Balkan musical styles (e.g., microtones, vocal glissando, and certain musical instruments) and has become popular in Albania and North Macedonia. [4]
Nation Instrument Description Recording H-S number Image Afghanistan: rubab [6] [7] rabab: Short-necked three-stringed lute with sympathetic and drone strings, fretted and plucked with a plectrum, with a double-chambered body, the lower part of which is covered in skin, and with three main strings
Modern instruments may be inlaid with non-moveable metal frets. The pattern that the frets are set up to play depends on the tonal system used by the musical tradition a musician participate in. [ 1 ] The instrument's body can be made from separate staves, or carved from one piece of wood.
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.
The actual mechanism was so large it occupied an entire room; wires from the controlling console were fed discreetly through holes in the auditorium floor, into the instrument room below. The workshop console of the telharmonium during its development at the New England Electric Music Company's Cabot Street Music Plant, in Holyoke , 1906.
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]