In 1871 the New York Cotton Exchange took over the building; its architect, Ebenezer L. Roberts, reconstructed parts of the interior, added a single columned doorway and placed a large clock face at the roof with the legend "Cotton Exchange" in raised letters of graduated size.
The greater number of stringed instruments in use in Western and North African orchestras are bowed; Western orchestras, however, are distinctive in that these bowed chordophones exist and are played in families of graduated size (violin, viola, cello, bass), and this phenomenon derives from the extent to which Western musicians have valued harmony and multipart composition.
These devices are exactly what they sound like, that being a single measuring cup (and a measuring spoon, to boot) that can adjust to the graduated size you need.
It is made up of five shallow bossed gongs of graduating size, each played by one person.
But because it refuses to tie up its plot strands into prettily romantic bows, "Igby" isn't likely to be a "Graduate -size hit.
I've got this cheap pair of Zaggs with graduating sizes of soft, silicone buds; not one stays stuck long enough to get my groove thing going.
A CD-ROM at the gallery, "Classical Chinese Visual Music: Unique Music of Great Antiquity," portrays Chinese musicians in a contemporary orchestra, with about 90 bells of graduated sizes and pitches hanging from racks.
"So taking its name from the Italian word for harmony, he made this instrument of graduated-size bowls with holes and corks in the center that he put on a horizontal spindle rotated by a fly wheel and a foot pedal.
Similarly, rubber or plastic cones in graduating sizes can be worn within the foreskin, which is held in place by tape.
The symbolic nature of cash stands out with special clarity in America where, unlike most European countries, we don't even graduate the size of our paper money under the venerable formula "Bigger is better".
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