Sentence examples for electronic pipes from inspiring English sources
Meanwhile, Messier was busy turning his big French water utility into a modern communications conglomerate called Vivendi, and he needed more entertainment content to funnel through his electronic pipes.
Bandwidth is the basic electronic pipe down which companies send their Internet traffic.
As long as an electronic pipe flows in only one direction, as with television, people may be content to be passive consumers.
His colleague explained that while he was trying to give up smoking, he didn't want to commit to an electronic pipe, knowing full well he'd never completely stop if he owned one.
DUBAI — The afternoon sandstorm outside Paul Griffiths's home in Dubai gave the usually blue sky a rusty haze, but listening to the rush of notes coming from the electronic pipe organ in his living room was to feel transported to the Europe of an earlier century.
In the office, there was the electronic water pipe that five people could smoke at once.
His search led him to the Walker Technical Company, in Zionsville, Pa., which specializes in electronic additions to pipe organs.
One electronic enhancement for pipe organs has not been controversial: the use of microprocessors to make the job of pulling stops simpler during a pipe organ performance.
Mr. Wadey, a young but seasoned player in the contentious world of electronic aids for pipe organs, is careful to explain exactly what he and his company do.
Keyboard instruments vary greatly in the manner in which they produce a sound: the harpsichord has quills that pluck the strings; the piano has hammers that strike the strings; the celesta has hammers that strike a metal bar; the pipe organ sends air through a pipe; the electronic organ employs electronic oscillators to produce its sound.
Cornel A. Zimmer, an organ builder in Denver, N.C., whose company produces pipe organs, all-digital organs and combination instruments that include both pipes and electronic voices, explained the big difference in cost for a single stop.
