Sentence examples for double courses from inspiring English sources

Before 1800 the double courses were replaced by single strings tuned E A d g b e′, still the standard tuning.

A zither called the celempung or siter, which has 20 to 26 metal strings in double courses, may also be heard in gamelans.

Resembling a mandolin, the bouzouki has a round wooden body, with metal strings arranged in three or four double courses over a fretted fingerboard.

In Puerto Rican traditional music, a guitar plays the harmony, the 10-stringed lute with 5 double courses (cuatro) plays the melody with the singer, and the scraper (guiro) and drums (timbales) produce the rhythmic part.

The modern version has four to six main melodic strings, plus two to four others; some of the strings may be paired in double courses tuned in unison or at the octave.

By the 17th century it had 8 to 12 strings in double courses that were finger-plucked, and it had acquired the frets, separate neck, and tension bridge (string holder placed on the belly) of the lute, although it retained the violinlike pegbox.

A total of 21 patients received a single course of high-dose chemotherapy and 32 patients a double course of high-dose chemotherapy.

Moreover, we have shown that a double course of high-dose chemotherapy after anthracycline-containing regimen in patients of metastatic breast cancer can induce a transient decline of LVEF to less than 50% in 14.3% of the patients (Bengala et al, 2003).

Among variant forms of the guitar are the 12-stringed, or double-course, guitar, and the Mexican jarana and the South American charango, both small five-course guitars.

"The C.E.O. who was chairman of the board announced he would cancel all advanced-placement courses and double class sizes," he said.

The main discussion of this paper is on the design process for double degree courses and the introduction of a tools box to support this process, both developed at University Duisburg-Essen.