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    Santa Cruz Case Introduction Santa Cruz Guitar Company is a small-scale musical instrument company that produces custom high quality guitars. Although Santa Cruz Guitar Company manufactures few guitars a year, compared to competitors, and lack an actual quality department, Santa Cruz Guitar Company is known for high quality instruments. Dr. Robert W. Edwards Deming was a statistician that had a large impact on quality, as we know it today. Deming realized how management processes could

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    When country music began in America, there were no professional musicians. The typical musician sang only to entertain himself, his family or at local events. There is evidence of square dance-like events as far back as the 1830s (with origins in European country dancing). At first, most country music was either sung by itself or played on a lone fiddle or banjo. A good fiddler was a very popular person and was often asked to perform at events ranging from weddings to cattle drives. There was no

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    as the sole instrument in the song. In fact, the tune played by the guitar is consistent throughout the song, and does not change other than some slight loudenings and softenings for effect. As a result of this, the voices of the singers guide the song. Contrastingly “Positively 4th Street” has a complex instrumental played by a whole band. Specifically, it consists of a guitar so heavy that it may as well be opposite to the guitar in “Blowin’ in the Wind” among a flurry of other instruments including

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    Carry out study of a Classical Guitar and write a report on its history, development and construction. The classical guitar, sometimes called the Spanish or nylon strung guitar, consists of a hollow body made with a top, back and sides constructed from thin pieces of wood carved and shaped to give the familiar traditional figure of eight shape. A long narrow piece of wood, called the neck, is attached to the body at one end and has, at the other end, a headstock to which are attached six tuning

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    agent with whom I can establish a good working relationship and who can assist me in increasing my volume of solo classical guitar concerts and, possibly, chamber concerts as well. So you know a little about me, I teach classical guitar at Georgia State University and Emory University in Atlanta. I have made my living solely from performing and teaching the classical guitar for 15 years. Over the past few years I have played numerous concert halls and concert series primarily in Georgia. Now, it

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    Arnel Pineda, begins to sing. Around forty seconds into the song, and right after Pineda finishes the first cadence, you hear the guitar for one short note, then it does not reappear after the line “he took the midnight train going anywhere.” The guitar is played in very short spaced notes and crescendos. It was also being played in an allegro tone. Once again, the guitar stops as the singing begins. As the singer begins to sing, he is only accompanied by the piano until the line “on and on and

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    art on it. “That’s how you know” is a very captivating song. It is fun, educative and entertaining all at the same time. I see this song becoming a hit with circles of people as it portrays very relatable incidents. The song is sang over a catchy guitar which I found very interesting. It makes the whole song sound like something that was just

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    Braden Johnson Ms. Savell English 1A 13 December, 2016 The History of Celtic Music and Instruments Throughout Celtic culture and history music is an extremely important aspect of life. The Celts had a variety of instruments and holidays that they would play songs of joy and fun. Often times they would call this music, Folk Music as it was mostly among the people of the nations of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Continue for 2-3 sentences. In Celtic culture several instruments were commonly used

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    The song “Saturn” by Sleeping at Last is the second song on the fourth EP of their Atlas series called “Space II”. This EP was released on 21st November 2013 and contains vocals, piano, and a collection of cellos played by Sharon Gerber. The structure of the song is unusual as exactly half of the song is made up of the introduction. The song starts with a full minute of layered crescendoing cello, and then piano is introduced along with some light sung notes. As the instruments are introduced the

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    I hate when I think of a perfect comeback after it’s too late to use it. Yesterday, Mrs. Hobbs was playing Hotel California and had said something about the guitar part at the end. Byron had responded by stating that, “the guitar part is unnecessary.” “Are you serious?” I retorted. “The guitar solo makes this song.” “The instrumental parts are just filler,” he stated. Usually, I didn’t really like to argue. Especially with Byron because he takes himself way too seriously. However, when it comes

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