Sentence examples for a chromatic scale from inspiring English sources

The neck is straight with 19 black nylon frets arranged to produce a chromatic scale.

Instead, they establish a chromatic scale of timbres that range from dry and tart over clean and zesty all the way to lustrous and singing.

"This error was not harmless as it undercut testimony by Skidmore's expert that Led Zeppelin copied a chromatic scale that had been used in an original manner," Judge Paez said.

The sets of strings on each bridge are pitched whole steps apart and neighbouring sets of strings on adjacent bridges are pitched a fifth apart; this arrangement enables a musician to play a chromatic scale in all keys.

South Asian music theory posits a scale of 22 unequal intervals to the octave; although, in practice, a chromatic scale of 100-cent intervals is used, ornaments use intervals of smaller size.

He had fiddled with a number of metaphors ("Tongues of Fire"; "Trumpets of the Lord") before coming across the dictionary definition of the trombone as "the only wind instrument possessing a chromatic scale enharmonically in tune, like the human voice or the violin, and hence very valuable in the orchestra".

In case that doesn't make sense, take a look at this picture of a written chromatic scale, starting on C: Understand enharmonics.

The result is an instrument that can play nearly a full chromatic scale over the entire compass of the instrument except in the lower register.

Someone sang long notes in a descending chromatic scale.

During each race, the British announcers' excited voices rose up a steady chromatic scale.

"I used a descending chromatic scale throughout the score," explains Marc Wilkinson, who was director of music at the National Theatre when Haggard approached him to write the score for Blood On Satan's Claw.