Sentence examples for stretched string from inspiring English sources

THE human voice, like any sound produced by thrumming a stretched string, has a fundamental frequency.

Additional standing waves can be created in a stretched string; the three simplest are represented graphically in Figure 4.

At the same time, the piece relates to Minimalist sculpture, to Richard Serra's torqued and spiraled plates and Fred Sandback's stretched string sculptures.

She shoots simple suspended objects and manipulates negatives in the darkroom to produce photogram-like images of lights spiraling in nocturnal space or layered patterns of stretched string.

Among the San, the discovery of the use of the hunting bow as a musical instrument, and with it the discovery of the harmonics of a stretched string, constituted a cluster of traits that were probably interdependent.

This classification also includes the chordophone (in which the initial sound is produced by vibration of a stretched string), the membranophone (produced by the vibration of a stretched membrane), the idiophone (produced by the vibration of a resonant solid material), and electrophone (produced or amplified by electronic means).

Dancers speak of the body being "worked" — that is, stretched, strung like a bow — or not.

In the case of ideal stretched strings and air columns, higher harmonics result when the full length of the vibrating medium is divided into more and more equal parts.

Legend has it that he used to stretch string between two points and then measure the string, translating inches into a flying boat's hours in the air.

Tie stout, none stretching string from the top cross pieces to the bottom ones for the vines to climb on.

Continue the pattern by stretching string to the opposite corner of the board and winding the string about the nail two times.