Sentence examples for daf from inspiring English sources

Both singers also play daf, a tambourine.

Supported by a tar lute and kemancheh spike-fiddle, the lone singer accompanies himself - it's traditionally a male art - by beating a daf frame-drum, tricked out with metal rings and bells.

At 11, I picked up the daf and studied under a great master.

When they play, the Sudanese crowd all join in with the singing, and although they don't always see eye-to-eye with their neighbours, the Syrians get involved too, using plastic bottles and empty tin cans in lieu of daf drums to create accompanying percussion.

He made his son a daf drum, while Alim made a rudimentary tar lute out of nails, wire, and a metal bowl.

Mr. Shajarian's son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum).

elegans, as scientists know the creature), those that have had one of their genes called daf-2 tweaked in the laboratory live twice as long as counterparts that have not.

The gene that makes the receptor for IGF-1 in the roundworm is called DAF-2.

The Laron patients have the equivalent defect — their cells make very little IGF-1, so very little IGF-1 signaling takes place, just as in the DAF-2-ablated worms.

Scientists are now trying to develop synthetic compounds that affect the genes daf-2 and SIRT1.

In a series of studies, Dr. Kenyon, of the University of California, San Francisco, has created mutant roundworms that live six times longer than normal, largely because of a mutation in a single gene called daf-2.