- Guitar
... luthiers prefer this method of construction as they claim it allows better sustain of each note. Some instruments may not have a neck joint at all, having th ...
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- Lead guitar
... tion pedals]], or sound [[compressor]]s, or [[double]]r effects for a more sustained tone, and [[delay (audio effect)|delay effects]] or an electronic "[[cho ...
To attain this prized sustain effect [[tube amplifiers]] such as [[Marshall]] are often utilized [http:/ ...
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- Bass guitar
... y to increase the durability of the fingerboard, enhance [[Sustain (music)|sustain]] and give a brighter tone. Although most fretless basses have four string ...
... lar. Roundwounds have a brighter [[timbre]] with greater [[Sustain (music)|sustain]] than flatwounds.
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- Pull-off
... nearing the threshold of [[feedback]], pull-offs can even be used to play sustained notes.
... llus or by their fretting-finger fingernail. This increases the volume and sustain of the pulled-off note, although the sound of the fretting finger dragging ...
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- Gibson Les Paul
... he fitting of a maple cap over the mahogany body for increased density and sustain, which Les Paul had requested reversed. However, according to Gibson Guita ...
... egan using the Gibson model. These 1950s models featured the thicker, more sustaining tone of Gibson's [[humbucking]] pickups with the original units known a ...
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- Tom-tom drum
... duced is similar to a [[bass drum]], though it is more open and has longer sustain. They can be mounted with standard floor tom legs, though many drummers mo ...
... he shell to vibrate freely without degrading the shell's dynamic range and sustain. The nodal point is the location on a shell with the least amount of vibra ...
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- Hi-hat cymbal
... ith a drumstick, the cymbals make either a short, snappy sound or a longer sustaining sandy sound depending on the position of the pedal.
... essure allows the cymbals to rub together more freely, giving both greater sustain and greater volume for accent or crescendo. In [[shuffle time]], a rhythm ...
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- Bass drum
... as a hole in it to allow air to escape when the drum is struck for shorter sustain. Muffling can be installed through the hole without taking off the front h ...
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- Fill (music)
... s a shortened musical passage, [[riff]], or rhythmic sound which helps to sustain the listener's attention during a break between the [[Phrase (music)|phras ...
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- Peter Moore (business)
... ason and shift x millions of units of hardware, otherwise we just couldn't sustain the business. So on January 31st 2001 we said Sega is leaving hardware. We ...
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- Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360)
... s, and in [[Monkey Wrench]], the first note (on Expert at least) is a blue sustain one beat before the original start.
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