A special aperture covered with a reed membrane gives the instrument its characteristic sound.
The prose is attitude-free and precise, its characteristic sound a minor chord of sorrow and banked anger.
Its characteristic sound is a small orchestra, heavy on the brass and wind, a banjo and a guitar at work.
Panderos (tambourines), drums, güiros (scrapers), guitars (especially the type of guitar known as the cuatro), and accordions give the music its characteristic sound and buoyancy.
In stressed syllables, there are two tones, which give Swedish much of its characteristic sound.
Although Goodman used other arrangers at times, Henderson's charts gave the band its most characteristic sound.
In Paris, Ahmadzaï worked obsessively to complete the recording of "Impressive Instant", applying his characteristic sound mangling.
Beerkens' study recorded the impressions of a focus group that credited the expressiveness of the object to its "sprightly impression," to its "improvised and immediate, personal character," and to those characteristic sounds.
Its movements describe the passions aroused by the characteristic sounds of different instruments: passions that Handel paints as much in his text setting as in his choices of instrumental color.
Serbs and Albanians use the term Tsintsars, ironically reproducing what they perceive as characteristic sounds of the Aromanian speech.
Guto Puw's Camouflage was also premiered, a piece in which textures and characteristic sounds merged and re-emerged in the overall picture, as in nature.
