Nothing less than a series of custom-built instruments such as "a bespoke digitally-controlled pipe organ; a 30 foot pendulum that harnesses the earth's gravitational pull to create musical patterns, creating a unique bridge between the ancient and the modern; a bespoke gamelan-celeste hybrid; and a one-off extraordinary pin barrel harp".
(1774), and Zion Lutheran Church, Philadelphia (1790); he also built other keyboard instruments such as harpsichords and virginals.
Yerkes engineers and astronomers have also built instruments for other observatories, such as the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy and the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, N.M.
The panel, which released its report on Thursday, says NSF must make some tough choices if it wants to follow through on plans to build new ground-based instruments such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
Luthiers make bespoke stringed instruments, such as the 42-string Pikasso guitar Linda Manzer crafted for Pat Metheny.
Rosewood is also used to make some musical instruments, such as guitars, but the new rules will not prevent musicians travelling with their instruments.
SAC-D contains other instruments such as an infrared camera (partly built by the Canadian Space Agency) to study forest fires and volcanoes and a microwave radiometer that complements Aquarius by measuring rainfall and wind speed over the oceans.
His scores build in three stages, from earthy percussion and humble folkish instruments – such as harmonica, panpipes or the Jew's harp and whistles of For a Few Dollars More – to rock-influenced electronic guitars to orchestrations, featuring trumpets for the final showdowns, and expansive strings and chorus that perfectly match the epic journeys and widescreen compositions of Leone's films.
Working with samples and recurring instruments such as the acoustic drum and the flute also helped to build the project.
Musical instruments are treated in electronic instrument, keyboard instrument, percussion instrument, stringed instrument, and wind instrument, as well as in separate articles on individual instruments, such as clarinet, drum, guitar, kayagŭm, piano, tabla, and theremin.
