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Page 201
... instruments . Coun- ters . The Geiger counter , the oldest of the cosmic - ray- detection instruments , produces an electrical pulse when- ever an ionizing particle passes through its gas - filled chamber . Though it played a vital role ...
... instruments . Coun- ters . The Geiger counter , the oldest of the cosmic - ray- detection instruments , produces an electrical pulse when- ever an ionizing particle passes through its gas - filled chamber . Though it played a vital role ...
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... instruments in opposition to the sounds of a large battery of percussion instruments . This approach probably grew directly out of earlier ex- periments with polytonality , but here tone colours , rather than keys or tones , are ...
... instruments in opposition to the sounds of a large battery of percussion instruments . This approach probably grew directly out of earlier ex- periments with polytonality , but here tone colours , rather than keys or tones , are ...
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... instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from earlier bowed instruments : the medieval fiddle ; its 16th - century Italian offshoot , the lira da braccio ; and the rebec . Like its predecessors but unlike its cousin the viol , the ...
... instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from earlier bowed instruments : the medieval fiddle ; its 16th - century Italian offshoot , the lira da braccio ; and the rebec . Like its predecessors but unlike its cousin the viol , the ...
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