Sentence examples for fifth apart from inspiring English sources

The strings of the erhu, commonly tuned a fifth apart, are stretched over a wooden drumlike resonator covered by a snakeskin membrane.

The common sizes, built a fifth apart, were called (from highest to lowest) the treble, the tenor, and the bass, usually with corresponding pitches in winds of a, d, and G. Flutes and recorders were an octave higher.

The two twisted-silk strings, tuned a fifth apart (as c-g), are attached at the bottom of the soundbox; they pass over a small wooden bridge and up the long bamboo neck to large pegs.

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.

Bach's Musical Offering is made up of a three-part fugue, a trio sonata, 10 canons, and a six-part ricercare, all on a "Royal Theme" by King Frederick the Great; one of the canons ("Fuga canonica in epidiapente") is constructed, as the title states, so that two of the voices are canonic at the fifth (that is, a fifth apart in pitch) throughout.

"Add more notes an octave or an octave and fifth apart and you get a growing, powerful sound.

Tuesday, in two explosions nine seconds apart.

Jordan Eberle and Ryan Jones added third-period goals 15 seconds apart.

The first two goals came six seconds apart.

Rob Gilbert scored twice, six seconds apart, in 1968.

"Rockets are falling seconds apart on the same target".