Walls are made by the owners weaving together local reeds and leaves, which can easily be replaced if swept away. |
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A single candle and a carefully assembled bundle of flowers and reeds, held together by a violet snow globe, made up the centerpiece. |
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Thatch would have been gathered from reeds and rushes on the shore and used for the roof of the main castle. |
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Traditional Hutu houses are huts made from wood, reeds, and straw and are shaped like beehives. |
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From the marshes, fens and river-banks, rushes and reeds were harvested for use in thatching, with tons needed just for one dwelling. |
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Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs. |
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These reeds which are about 3, 4 metres high some of them are used for thatching the roofs. |
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I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe. |
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This would give a warm, dry and snug shelter for the pigs or poultry which some people would thatch using reeds or perhaps ling. |
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Of course, no oboe reeds were available locally, so I bought the oboe without having any idea whether or not it could play. |
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When the reeds parted, he caught a glimpse of her, and yes, there she was, the river goddess. |
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For the next few days I worked on packing up snare drums, clarinets, reeds and so many other things. |
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In the dappled light, woven flax fans became fish and hanging strips of polythene were swaying palm trees, reeds or bamboo. |
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Al is a rare multi-instrumentalist, able to alternate on reeds and trumpet with equal artistry over an evening. |
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The Beast isn't even an electronic record as such, as Michel records himself on guitar, drums, melodica, horns, reeds, keys, the list goes on. |
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Youssou N'Dour worked with Fathy Salama, who arranged and conducted his orchestral group of violins, reeds, flutes, and percussion. |
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The combination of percussion and reeds, and the frenzied pace of some of the pieces, creates some uncanny parallels with Moroccan trance music. |
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On the plains, the banks of rivers and billabongs were festooned with tall reeds and wild tangles of coolabah, swamp oak and river gum roots. |
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To select the bigger specimens use a ledgered bait positioned on the far bank shelf or next to the reeds. |
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Inspired by the Chinese sheng, many 18th-century makers experimented with the possibilities of free reeds. |
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The bottom shelved gently down from the margins and levelled out at 10 feet depth just at the point where the reeds ended. |
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Food is mainly roots, leaves, stems and shoots of grasses, reeds and sedges. |
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The land here is rich and green, but for the most part from the river all that can be seen are the giant papyrus reeds, which line the bank. |
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Spears of up to two and a half to three meters in length are prepared from light-weight floatable river reeds. |
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These heliozoans are found most often in freshwater, floating in the open water amongst reeds and algae. |
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The bore was cylindrical and held a double reed, though single reeds are sometimes shown. |
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Herons and egrets swooped at our bow, and at night we moored alongside sand islands and among reeds and coots. |
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It was always a sure-fire shocker for a monster to wade out of the reeds, roaring, and grab somebody off the raft. |
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High on the roof of the store, weaving a string of Norfolk reeds into the thatch, Billy Betsford looked down at the old man. |
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Exceptions are the zampogna, the musette, and the uillean pipes, which have double reeds throughout. |
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Woven reeds, grasses and bamboos perfectly complement tailored herringbone-edge bindings. |
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Before those 1968 Olympics, he would be tinkering with 15 pairs of skis at a time, like a saxophonist with his reeds, and finally choosing. |
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They bring sheaves of reeds exceeding their own height, balanced like the cross-stroke of a majuscular T on their heads. |
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The marsh gave way gradually to dry land, and the reeds and willows to hazels and elders. |
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Only the local fishermen know their way through the maze of tall reeds to the oases of lotuses and water lilies concealed within. |
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Traditional tukutuku is made from reeds set vertically side by side, with horizontal wooden laths lashed in front of them. |
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My first activity of the day was to run the Eucalyptus trail twice round as the staff canoed to work and parked their dugout canoes in the reeds. |
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Traditional Tutsi houses were huts of wood, reeds, and straw shaped like beehives. |
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In the north, walls are made of millet stalks or reeds, and roofs are typically corrugated tin. |
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South walls are formed of large sliding floor-to-ceiling windows with, outside them, folding panels of local reeds in aluminium frames. |
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The lake was a peaceful sight, with a few reeds along the edge, and the soft hum of cicadas around it. |
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After numerous trips and hours of staring at the water and surrounding reeds, I still had not seen the kingfisher. |
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When I bought a new oboe d'amore a few months ago, I found that I knew very little about the reeds. |
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A horse, or something in its shape, rose from among the reeds and nichered. |
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The actual grains of barley floated level with the brim, and reeds of various lengths but without nodes were in the bowls. |
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Abruptly there was an edge with no land, just a dense peninsula of spear-like reeds bursting into the water. |
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Traditional fishing methods include thrusting and scooping with baskets as well as the building of funnels and weirs from reeds and sticks. |
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Sensing my surprise at finding a violin amidst the gaggle of reeds and brass and bull fiddles, she offered to play me a tune. |
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Just after the war I learned to thatch corn stacks using reeds with long stems. |
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Beavers, procyons, musquashes, foxes and otters dwell in the reeds, while boars and 30 other species of mammals live on dry land. |
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A pickup truck was circling the pond, which flushed some birds out of the reeds and into the open water. |
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Its principals, mixtures, reeds, and octave couplers could deliver enough power to wake the dead. |
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There are two places next to the road where the reeds of the black river give way, forming natural swimming holes. |
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Other craft items include both glazed and unglazed pottery, ceremonial wooden masks, and goods woven from palm, straw, reeds, and sisal. |
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The most frequently emergent macrophytes used are reeds, bulrushes, cattails, rushes and sedges. |
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Then, Carter busts the lid off the song, and achieves a rush of sound, Carter's reeds screaming, the percussion a rattling thunderstorm. |
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Jacanas, plover and a variety of storks foraged amongst the tall reeds at the river's edge. |
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On some accordions separate banks of reeds with a variety of timbres may be brought into play by pressing tabs set above the manuals. |
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Not being able to stand it a moment longer, she sprang out of the reeds and dashed toward her sibling, enveloping him in a very wet embrace. |
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I started near the north pond where a couple black-winged stilts came flying out of the reeds. |
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An irrigation ditch ran alongside to the left of the track and was filled with water, weeds, waist-high rushes and reeds. |
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The elegant bamboo reeds release clean, invigorating pamplemousse, jasmine, tamarind and sandalwood oils, for a warm, natural scent. |
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This was done with thin strips of wood and bark, fine branches from trees such as hazel or willow withies, and reeds. |
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Edible reeds, rushes and grasses can be incorporated into both shallow and deep ponds, providing additional food for humans and wildlife. |
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I even noticed a juvenile white-crowned sparrow in the reeds along the water, newly arrived on its wintering grounds. |
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The foothills themselves were coated in long, green grass with reeds growing at the riverbanks. |
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Aquatic plants come in many forms, from relatively simple multi-cellular algae to reeds and water lilies. |
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As we had many big ditches or dykes as we called them, the reeds were readily available. |
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Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds. |
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Avoid docking or beaching where plants such as reeds, grasses and mangroves are located. |
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Water lilies, reeds and sometimes, on hot days and nights, mists articulate the change between the heavily trafficked street and the park. |
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The tule reeds might be ripped out, damaging the slough's filtration system. |
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Look again for flooded areas, especially where long grasses and reeds lie over the water's surface. |
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He was especially drawn to the movement of taller plants, reeds and grasses. |
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The music was produced from organ pipes, reeds, drums, bells, and strings struck with a hammer. |
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We canoed across the lake, through the water reeds which the Finns make into small pipes. |
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The variety, character, and pungency of tone in the flue work, is as admirable as their reeds and swell organs are poor and defective. |
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They were sitting together beside a pool of water, surrounded by reeds and trailing plants. |
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Because of all the changes it is obviously difficult to test the validity of these claims, but some of Wheelock's main supports are broken reeds to lean on. |
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Baskets are made from palm leaves, rushes, reeds, or wicker. |
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Sitting up on the coaming, spring sun in our eyes, the thrumming of the sail above us, we were as happy as the coots and grebes fossicking around in the reeds. |
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He clears out the silt and mud that are clogging the rivers and dykes, and cuts and scythes the reeds and sedge that threaten to reclaim the broads, selling them for thatch. |
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This disc presents a selection of his chamber works for double reeds. |
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There are great melodies aplenty, serious dhol beating, and a variety of solos on the whole range of reeds and brass, plus a persistent bassline played on a sousaphone. |
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Delicate lily-pads had been carefully placed on the glassy mirror of a thousand reflections, and clumps of reeds, bullrushes and gorse made forty-one shades of green. |
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Depending on the size of the bog garden and the maintenance levels, some reeds and rushes should be avoided because of the tendency to completely invade the area. |
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Here, against the lingering light of a winter afternoon, I have often watched, fascinated, as the darkly silhouetted harriers glide in just above the reeds. |
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It is a sad and spectral landscape of thin, undulating, sandy soils, pine trees, reeds, broom, sedges and whispering dry grasses, under those endless, two-tone Russian skies. |
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I lay there a long time amongst the grasses and reeds, struggling to keep my head above the water, and trying not to be seen as the enemy searched for me. |
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Sometimes, the nests are also built on the ground among reeds. |
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Wisteria, weeping willows and reeds are mirrored in the calm of the pond. |
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Because we had long lengths of wide ditches where tall reeds grew in proliferation, we used to cut them using long-polled scythes and tie the stems into bundles. |
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The Ma'dan live in houses built of reeds, with reed mats for floors. |
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In the harmonium the action of the bellows blows air past the reeds. |
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In Saracenic armies, bands composed of reeds and pipes of various sorts played during combat to encourage their own troops and to show that the line remained unbroken. |
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Generally employed too far from their villages to be able to reach home in the evening, the women had built temporary huts, leaky shelters of branches and reeds. |
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There is now a black dot in a cluster of reeds about two hundred meters downstream. |
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Likewise, abstract designs derived from dry reeds, postage cancellations, typography, wire fences, waves and seagulls fill the spiral form of Snail Maze. |
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It was filled with low bushes, dead grass, reeds, and shallow black water. |
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From the riverbanks reeds are harvested for hut building and thatching. |
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A stronger puff of wind ruffled the water and bent the water-side reeds. |
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Waist-high weeds including stinging nettles line the track and reeds grow beside the row of trees, suggesting a murky dark line of water lies beneath them. |
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This oasis of marshland is the home of many interesting plants, including pink and pale purple garlic, bog asphodels, irises, reeds and waterlilies. |
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Zander tend to spawn on submerged tree stumps, branches and reeds, although it is suspected that they can also spawn on plants and even canal pilings. |
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The elephants were in a deep nullah, hidden among the reeds and cane. |
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The river is polluted and overgrown with reeds following years of neglect. |
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I also saw a few coots and a purple swamphen near the edge of the reeds. |
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The man, stripped of clothes, is floating near a patch of reeds. |
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In my youth, this was a murky place filled with stands of tule reeds, bubbling pools of stagnant water and little streams that ran between islands of bushes and reeds. |
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A moorhen called from inside the reeds and then flew across the pond. |
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Single reeds are the easiest to play, and double reeds are the hardest. |
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At the laundry pond a marsh harrier was harassing the ducks and coots, flying low over them and flushing them out of the reeds and into open water. |
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In some villages bamboo matting and reeds are used to form walls. |
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Bede however was critical of the fact that the church was not built of stone but only of hewn oak thatched with reeds. |
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That demonstrated to Bell that only one reed or armature was necessary, not multiple reeds. |
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The rest of the Fenland was dedicated to pastoral farming, fishing, fowling and the harvesting of reeds or sedge for thatch. |
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It may be lined with smaller twigs, strands of root or dead grasses, and in reed beds, it is built from dead reeds. |
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Ordinary people lived in houses made of reeds plastered with mud and roofed with thatch. |
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Debris from reeds in these lakes formed a layer at the bottom of the water. |
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The Jack O'Lanthron was among the reeds again last night, and some of my neighbours are sore fleyed. |
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As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it. |
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The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th century that used free reeds driven by a bellows. |
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Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused among his reeds by thunder. |
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The black bear cub became entangled in a dipnet, which had been lying in tall reeds behind Dane Havard's Anchorage house. |
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Pipes with idioglot reeds have been identified from later civilisations, for example the Greek aulos and the Sardinian launeddas. |
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After heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined. |
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In some regions, people use sugarcane reeds to make pens, mats, screens, and thatch. |
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Water deer inhabit the land alongside rivers, where they are protected from sight by the tall reeds and rushes. |
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Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block. |
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Trumpets, cornets, and other reeds en chamade, characteristic of Spanish organs after ca. |
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In the National Geographic range, you can now enjoy Japan Tatami and Nevada Desert Flower in the new fragrance reeds diffuser. |
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Bell also thought that multiple metal reeds tuned to different frequencies like a harp would be able to convert the undulating currents back into sound. |
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Two Cetti's warblers have been heard at Marton Mere, but they proved too elusive as I searched in reeds that swayed, rattled and creaked in a strengthening south westerly. |
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Now the rarely seen bladderwort is thriving in areas where reeds and rushes have been cut back, allowing light to get to these strange carnivorous plants. |
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Fast-growing, fast-spreading phragmites, which most of us know as common reeds, can present a major problem in freshwater and tidal wetland habitats. |
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The call has a stack design with a single-reed frame stacked on top of a double-reed and the three reeds combined allow versatility and realism in your turkey calling. |
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The sheng and khaen are both much older than the accordion and this type of reed did inspire the kind of free reeds in use in the accordion as we know it today. |
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Inside the accordion are the reeds that generate the instrument tones. |
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It is used to create pressure and vacuum, driving air across the internal reeds and producing sound by their vibration, applied pressure increasing the volume. |
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Modern developments have included reliable synthetic drone reeds as well as synthetic bags that deal with moisture arguably better than hide bags. |
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Large water plants, typically reeds, accelerate this closing process significantly because they partially decompose to form peat soils that fill the shallows. |
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Sway, flowers, leaning like reeds in a wave, More motionable than insects. |
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The exterior was covered with a matting made from reeds and twigs and then covered with hay and earth, which protected the interior from rain, heat and cold. |
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Willet sent the canoe through the open water between the tall reeds. |
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Rather less successful was Campra's Rigaudon from Idomenee, a crashing conversation between the heavy pressure reeds but, nevertheless, a great curtain-raiser. |
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A solitary waterhen swam among the few remaining reeds and bulrushes. |
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These simple instruments still found in Syria, Crete, Turkmenistan amongst others are also used by children who have a good supply of reeds nearby. |
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Depending on whether the reeds are single or double, slit from the pipe itself or inserted separately the bagpipe is an idioglot, a heteroglot, or mixed. |
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That transaction was followed by a deal to acquire Reeds Rains, an estate agent based in the north of England. |
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Her compassion leads Pharaoh's daughter to rescue Moses from the reedy water just as Yahweh delivers the Hebrews from the Sea of Reeds. |
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So maybe in Freeport, the Long Island fishing village the Reeds moved to, young Lou was a cerebral quarterback. |
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Gilbert created six musical entertainments for the German Reeds, some with music composed by Thomas German Reed. |
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Reeds and wild rye lay subdued to a dog's bark at a pile of dead frogs buried together in ice. |
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