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bell metal

(Encyclopedia)bell metal: see bronze.

Bell Gardens

(Encyclopedia)Bell Gardens, city (2020 pop. 39,501), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1961. Manufactures include tools, motor vehicle parts, a...

Bell Island

(Encyclopedia)Bell Island, island, SE N.L., Canada, in Conception Bay, off the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland. The island is 6 mi (9.7 km) long and 3 mi (4.8 km) wide. Its famous undersea iron mines were closed in ...

instrument flight regulations

(Encyclopedia)instrument flight regulations: see air navigation. ...

instrument-landing system

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Instrument-landing system (ILS), the most common instrument-landing approach system, uses two beams to guide an airplane. instrument-landing system (ILS), ground-based radio system designed to...

brass wind instrument

(Encyclopedia)brass wind instrument: see wind instrument. ...

telephone

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Hand telephone telephone, device for communicating sound, especially speech, usually by means of wires in an electric circuit. The telephones now in general use evolved from the device invente...

Chinese music

(Encyclopedia)Chinese music, the classical music forms of China. Throughout the political and social turmoil following World War I, Western (classical and popular) and Japanese sources dominated Chinese music. At...

jew's-harp

(Encyclopedia)jew's-harp or jews'-harp, musical instrument of ancient lineage composed of a small metal frame containing a flexible metal tongue. The frame is held between the teeth and the metal tongue is plucked ...

balalaika

(Encyclopedia)balalaika băləlīˈkə [key], Russian stringed musical instrument, with a triangular body and a long fretted neck fretted instrument. Usually there are three strings, which are generally plucked wit...