mechanical instrument
31Brass instrument — A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator. They are also called labrosones , literally meaning lip vibrated instruments (Baines, 1993).There are two… …
32Musical instrument classification — At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used. The most commonly used system in use in the west today divides instruments into string instruments, wind instruments and… …
33Electronic musical instrument — An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. In contrast, the term electric instrument is used to mean instruments whose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified or altered… …
34Keyboard instrument — The piano, a common keyboard instrument A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well… …
35Sector (instrument) — The sector, also known as a proportional compass or military compass, was a major calculating instrument in use from the end of the sixteenth century until the nineteenth century. It is an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length which …
36Dynamic mechanical analysis — Viscoanalyseur Pour les articles homonymes, voir AMD et DMA. Un viscoanalyseur ou analyseur mécanique dynamique (AMD) fait partie de la famille des appareils de DMA ou DMTA (en anglais Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis). Cet instrument… …
37Musical Instrument Museum (Brussels) — For other uses, see Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix) and Musical Instrument Museum. The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is a music museum in central Brussels, Belgium. It is part of the Royal Museums for Art and History and internationally… …
38Electronic instrument cluster — Digital dash redirects here. For the business tool, see Dashboard (disambiguation). In an automobile, an electronic instrument cluster, digital instrument panel or digital dash for short, is a set of instrumentation, including the speedometer,… …
39Surgical instrument — Various scalpels A surgical instrument is a specially designed tool or device for performing specific actions of carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it …
40Etienne Lenoir (instrument maker) — Etienne Lenoir (1744 1832) was a French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle .When hired by Jean Charles de Borda around 1772 to work on the reflecting circle , he was about thirty years old and nearly illiterate.… …
