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In the 18th century John Harrison solved the problem of determining longitude at sea using what instrument?

posted Apr 8 by Akriti

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Where did Stradivari, the famous violin maker, live and work?

posted Feb 14 by Vikram Luthra

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Which instrument originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of a small guitar-like instrument taken....

posted Oct 27, 2023 by Pushpak Chauhan

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A glockenspiel, a percussion instrument with tuned metal keys arranged like a piano keyboard, gets its name from........

posted Sep 21, 2023 by Puneet Batra

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The Richter scale was used to measure the magnitude of what?

posted Jul 14, 2023 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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Which is a pear-shaped musical instrument made of metal or terracotta with a mouthpiece and eight finger holes?

posted Feb 14, 2023 by Kapil Kapoor

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What is it about maple wood that makes it so popular for making musical instruments?

posted Oct 3, 2022 by Balwinder

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What wood or woods did the Stradivari family use in the construction of their exceptional stringed instruments?

posted Sep 26, 2022 by Madhavi Latha

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Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on which instrument?

posted Jul 13, 2022 by Karan Joglekar

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To measure blood pressure which instrument would be used?

posted Jan 4, 2022 by Balwinder

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Which musical instrument was brought to international attention by its use to signify one of the characters.............

posted Dec 17, 2021 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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What instrument is used for measuring relative humidity?

posted Sep 30, 2021 by Sandeep Bedi

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A cor anglais is what type of instrument?

posted Sep 23, 2021 by Prachi Sharma

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Alfred Brendel is mostly associated with what instrument?

posted Aug 31, 2021 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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Military signals are usually played on which instrument?

posted Jul 23, 2021 by Rajni

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A "moog" was what type of instrument?

posted Oct 20, 2020 by Rahul Vaidya

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What musical instrument is used to indicate that someone has "cooked the books"?

posted Oct 5, 2020 by Aastha Joshi

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For what instrument or instruments was Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 work "Pictures at an Exhibition" composed?

posted Sep 30, 2020 by Vishal

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A mellotron is what kind of musical instrument?

posted Jun 25, 2020 by Pushpak Chauhan

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What instrument was designed to measure variations in temperature by the expansion or contraction of a liquid or gas?

posted Apr 21, 2020 by Divya Bharti

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What does the Fujita Pearson Scale measure?

posted Nov 29, 2019 by Prithvi

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What orchestral string instrument has a deeper tone than a violin, and higher than a cello?

posted Nov 5, 2019 by Anuradha Tabyal

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What instrument is associated with Pablo Cassals?

posted Sep 6, 2019 by Karan Joglekar

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What was the name given to a type of xylophone consisting of large stones, dating from 2,500 - 4,000 BC found in China?

posted Aug 2, 2019 by Mridul

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Which instrument, with a range of around 4 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to G below middle C, with...............

posted Jul 10, 2019 by Brijesh Talwar

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With which country do you associate the sitar?

posted Jun 21, 2019 by Rahul Vaidya

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For which musical instrument is rosin useful?

posted Apr 14, 2019 by Vishal

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What was the instrument of US jazzman Art Pepper?

posted Jan 24, 2019 by Sandeep Bedi

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What was the instrument of US jazzman Charles Mingus?

posted Nov 15, 2018 by Brijesh Talwar

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Which brass musical instrument has a slide mechanism that enables the sounding length of the tube to be adjusted?

posted Oct 9, 2018 by Kapil Kapoor

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Which describes the saxophone-like wooden bodied musical instrument known as an octavin?

posted Aug 27, 2018 by Varuna Magar

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Which of these musicians became famous for playing the saxophone? [MCQ]

posted Aug 13, 2018 by Akriti

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Which of these instruments is usually played with a bow? [MCQ]

posted Aug 9, 2018 by Varuna Magar

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In 1935, Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg developed a scale to measure what concept? [MCQ]

posted Jul 13, 2018 by Nimish

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Which of these is an instrument to measure the number of steps taken by someone walking? [MCQ]

posted Jul 9, 2018 by Rahul Chandel

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Which of these is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance......... [MCQ]

posted Jun 20, 2018 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Hygrometer is used to measure what? [MCQ]

posted Jun 13, 2018 by Anshika Utadi

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With which instrument were the following people associated in the 1960s: Pete Quaife, Chas Chandler..................... [MCQ]

posted Apr 11, 2018 by Kuldeep Apte

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Which of these is an early wind instrument, dating from the Mediaeval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, that............ [MCQ]

posted Jan 18, 2018 by Atif

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How many valves does a trumpet have?

posted Oct 14, 2017 by Panchika Trivedi

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Which instrument, with a range of around 3 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C below middle C, with the...........

posted Aug 18, 2017 by Sidharth Malhotra

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What kind of music system is better for clear and deep bass. Is it amplifier with speaker or hi fi music system?

posted Aug 13, 2017 by Dershin Baro

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What instrument measures the speed of an Airplane?

posted Aug 10, 2017 by Deepak Jangid

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What is a Fathometer used to measure?

posted Aug 7, 2017 by Prithvi

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What instrument used for seeing objects at the surface of water from a submarine under water?

posted Jul 20, 2017 by Ankur Athari

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Which optical instrument shows symmetrical forms, produced by a combination of reflecting surfaces?

posted Jul 18, 2017 by Manish Tiwari

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Gene Krupa was a virtuoso on which instrument?

posted Jul 17, 2017 by Parampreet Kaur

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What metal instrument, 10 to 12 inches long, is used to unfasten knots and loosen rope strands for splicing?

posted Jun 30, 2017 by Samardeep Acharya

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What is a pluviometer used to measure?

posted Apr 18, 2017 by Varun Kumar

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Which instrument is used to measure the amount of rainfall?

posted Apr 1, 2017 by Varun Kumar