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  • Thumbnail for Valve Corporation
    Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue...
    113 KB (9,991 words) - 21:19, 14 November 2024
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    classification, wind instruments are classed as aerophones. Sound production in all wind instruments depends on the entry of air into a flow-control valve attached...
    18 KB (2,306 words) - 12:35, 25 June 2024
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    Trombone (redirect from Valve trombonist)
    alter the pitch instead of the valves used by other brass instruments. The valve trombone is an exception, using three valves similar to those on a trumpet...
    75 KB (9,419 words) - 17:23, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brass instrument valve
    Brass instrument valves are valves used to change the length of tubing of a brass instrument allowing the player to reach the notes of various harmonic...
    13 KB (1,465 words) - 11:48, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valve trombone
    The valve trombone is a brass instrument in the trombone family that has a set of valves to vary the pitch instead of (or in addition to) a slide. Although...
    14 KB (1,426 words) - 03:28, 29 October 2024
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    The euphonium is a medium-sized, 3 or 4-valve, often compensating, conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient...
    37 KB (4,384 words) - 12:18, 18 November 2024
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    bell and mouthpiece to facilitate low register playing, and usually two valves to fill in the missing range immediately above the pedal tones. The earliest...
    23 KB (2,833 words) - 19:08, 13 November 2024
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    four) valves in order to change their pitch. Most trumpets have valves of the piston type, while some have the rotary type. The use of rotary-valved trumpets...
    41 KB (4,902 words) - 00:48, 15 November 2024
  • current and operated by the keys of an organ console, opens and closes valves within wind chests, allowing the pipes to speak. This system also allows the console...
    7 KB (959 words) - 16:16, 5 July 2024
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    "ascending" third valve. This is a whole-tone valve arranged so that with the valve in the "up" position the valve loop is engaged, but when the valve is pressed...
    46 KB (5,981 words) - 21:05, 12 November 2024
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    Brass instrument valve Drum and bugle corps (modern) Haas (brass instrument makers) Horn section Pitch of brass instruments Wind instruments Baines...
    36 KB (4,299 words) - 22:55, 7 November 2024
  • weight load (e.g. valve weight). The weight of risers (vertical sections of pipe) can be supported by riser clamps. Occasional loads: Wind load: Piping which...
    20 KB (2,983 words) - 07:22, 9 July 2024
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    Windcatcher (redirect from Wind catcher)
    A windcatcher, wind tower, or wind scoop (Persian: بادگیر) is a traditional architectural element used to create cross ventilation and passive cooling...
    42 KB (4,486 words) - 16:35, 29 October 2024
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    Dry suit (redirect from P-valve (diving))
    usually equipped with an inflation valve (or inlet valve) and at least one exhaust valve (or dump valve, or outlet valve).: Ch5  Survival suits and other...
    149 KB (18,101 words) - 02:56, 10 November 2024
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    charge/discharge cycle. First proposed in 1914, the grid controlled mercury-arc valve became available during the period 1920 to 1940 for the rectifier and inverter...
    78 KB (10,024 words) - 16:41, 13 November 2024
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    The Hagmann Free-Flow Valve is a trademarked brass instrument valve design developed by Swiss musician and instrument technician René Hagmann, first introduced...
    8 KB (866 words) - 05:11, 14 October 2024
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    band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing...
    33 KB (3,461 words) - 13:56, 14 November 2024
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    Pipe organ (redirect from Wind-chest)
    pressure valves (pneumatics), in which case the action is electro-pneumatic. In such actions, an electromagnet attracts a small pilot valve which lets wind go...
    83 KB (10,045 words) - 14:41, 21 October 2024
  • A Trisonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) is a wind tunnel so named because it is capable of testing in three speed regimes – subsonic, transonic, and supersonic....
    7 KB (865 words) - 06:33, 19 October 2024
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    it uses electro-hydraulic-pneumatic actuators that allow it to open each valve (both intake and exhaust) independently to maximise performance and minimise...
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