Contrabass: Contrabass (from Italian: contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchestral string family ... (An instrument tuned in octaves lower than the standard instrument) [100%] 2023-12-23 [Contrabass instruments]
Contraband (band): Contraband was a short-lived supergroup/side project that included members of several famous rock bands from the 1980s, such as Shark Island, McAuley Schenker Group, Ratt, L.A. Guns, and Vixen. (Band) [80%] 2023-10-07 [1991 debut albums] [Glam metal musical groups from California]...
Contrapasso: In Dante's Inferno, contrapasso (or, in modern Italian, contrappasso, from Latin contra and patior, meaning "suffer the opposite") is the punishment of souls "by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself." A similar process occurs in ... (Method of infernal punishment) [80%] 2023-12-22 [Inferno (Dante)] [Italian words and phrases]...
Contrapasso (Westworld): "Contrapasso" is the fifth episode in the first season of the HBO science fiction western thriller television series Westworld. The episode aired on October 30, 2016. (Westworld) [80%] 2023-12-22 [2016 American television episodes] [Westworld (TV series) episodes]...
Contrabajo: El contrabajo es un instrumento musical de cuerda frotada de tesitura grave. Suele tener cuatro cuerdas. [80%] 2024-02-10
Contraband (2012 film): Contraband is a 2012 action thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna and J. K. (2012 film) [80%] 2024-05-30 [2012 films] [2012 action thriller films]...
Contraband (American Civil War): Contraband was a term commonly used in the US military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain people who escaped slavery or those who affiliated with Union forces. In August 1861, the Union Army and ... (American Civil War) [80%] 2024-09-26 [1861 establishments in the United States] [1865 disestablishments in the United States]...
Instruments: Instruments (formerly Xray) is an application performance analyzer and visualizer, integrated in Xcode 3.0 and later versions of Xcode. It is built on top of the DTrace tracing framework from OpenSolaris, which was ported to Mac OS X v10 ... (Software) [78%] 2023-12-18 [MacOS programming tools] [Debuggers]...
Contrabass guitar: A contrabass guitar is a low-register bass guitar with four, five or six strings. It is often called, simply, a six string bass guitar. (Very low pitched instrument of the guitar family) [70%] 2022-12-07 [Bass guitars] [Guitar family instruments]...
Contrabass clarinet: The contrabass clarinet and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage. Modern contrabass clarinets are pitched in B♭, sounding two octaves lower than the common B♭ soprano clarinet and one ... (Engineering) [70%] 2022-09-21 [Woodwind instruments] [Contrabass instruments]...
Contrabass guitar: A contrabass guitar is a low-register bass guitar with four, five or six strings. It is often called, simply, a six string bass guitar. (Engineering) [70%] 2022-12-07 [Guitar family instruments] [Contrabass instruments]...
Contrabass recorder: The contrabass recorder is a wind instrument in F2 that belongs to the family of recorders. The contrabass recorder plays an octave lower than the ordinary bass (or "basset") recorder. (Wind instrument) [70%] 2024-01-11 [Baroque instruments] [Early musical instruments]...
Contrabass oboe: The contrabass oboe is a double reed woodwind instrument in the key of C or F, sounding two octaves or an octave and a fifth (respectively) lower than the standard oboe. Recent research, in particular that by oboe historian Bruce ... (Engineering) [70%] 2023-03-15 [Contrabass instruments]
Contrabass trombone: The contrabass trombone (German: Kontrabassposaune, Italian: trombone contrabbasso) is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. While modern instruments are pitched in 12 ft (12′) F with a single slide, the first practical contrabass trombones appeared ... (Lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family) [70%] 2024-03-21 [Contrabass instruments] [Bass (sound)]...
Reed contrabass: The reed contrabass (Italian: contrabbasso ad ancia; French: contrebasse à anche) is a metal double reed woodwind instrument in the bass-contrabass register, pitched in C. Although the bassoon-like double reed and metal construction make it superficially similar to a ... (Engineering) [70%] 2024-06-20 [Contrabass instruments]
Contrabass trombone: The contrabass trombone (German: Kontrabassposaune, Italian: trombone contrabbasso) is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. While modern instruments are pitched in 12′ F with a single slide, the first practical contrabass trombones appeared in the ... (Engineering) [70%] 2024-09-02 [Contrabass instruments]
Contrabass trumpet: The contrabass trumpet is the lowest-pitched member of the trumpet family, sounding below the bass trumpet. Only a few exist. (Musical instrument) [70%] 2024-07-15 [Contrabass instruments] [Trumpets]...
Contrabass sarrusophone: The contrabass sarrusophone is the deepest of the family of sarrusophones, built in three sizes pitched in E♭, C or B♭. It was made in the 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily in France by its inventor and Parisian instrument ... (Engineering) [70%] 2025-01-31 [Contrabass instruments]
Instrument: INSTRUMENT in'-stroo-ment (keli; in Greek plural hopla, Romans 6:13): The word in the Old Testament is used for utensils for service, chiefly in connection with the sanctuary (compare Exodus 25:9; Numbers 4:12,26,32; 1 ... [70%] 1915-01-01
Instrument: An instrument is a tool with a specific use in a particular domain (though generally more refined than simple mechanical work). As such, the term instrument can refer to a wide range of different items. [70%] 2023-07-05 [Musical Terms]
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