Home Entertainment At Its Best--Your Private Home Theater

Written by Larry Denton


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Any home theater starts with a fantastic television screen. Screen size is no longerrepparttar only choice you have to make. You now haverepparttar 109781 option of standard tube televisions, flat-screen plasma displays, rear-projection televisions, in addition torepparttar 109782 high-end front projector systems and pull-down wall screens. To add torepparttar 109783 confusion, each of these types of screens is available in standard quality orrepparttar 109784 new high-definition format.

The second, and some would say most important piece of equipment, isrepparttar 109785 sound system. If you are truly looking to recreaterepparttar 109786 movie sound in your home, surround sound is your best bet. It is a recording technique that, when paired with a speaker system, putsrepparttar 109787 viewer inrepparttar 109788 center ofrepparttar 109789 action with sounds that move front to back, and side to side. It is not about louder sound, rather, it is about sound that envelopsrepparttar 109790 listener and provides directionality to off-screen sound effects.

A media player is another component to your system, and most people today choose DVD as their preferred format. When connected to a receiver and speakers, or when connected to a home theater system, most DVD players can play audio CDs. If you plan to use your DVD player to play CDs on a regular basis, you may want to consider a multidisc player over a single disc model.

Other necessities and accessories range from speaker choices, lighting controls, auto-retracting curtain (to concealrepparttar 109791 screen), and certainly comfortable seating. Seating choices, like everything else, vary widely. Your biggest decision in this area is whether you want your home theater to look like a "home" or a "theater." If you wantrepparttar 109792 miniature theater look, you can get stadium type seating that closely resembles your local theater. For a more "homey" look, you may wish to go with more traditional armchairs.

Larry Denton is retired history teacher having taught 33 years at Hobson High in Hobson, Montana. He is currently Vice President of Elfin Enterprises, Inc., an Internet business dedicated to providing valuable information on a variety of important topics. For a theater full of additional information to help you create that "perfect" home theater, visit http://www.HomeTheaterHere.com


How To Play The Violin

Written by Helen Baxter


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Pizzicato

To play pizzicato (often abbreviated to pizz.)repparttar right thumb should be placed underrepparttar 109780 fingerboard andrepparttar 109781 index finger used to pullrepparttar 109782 string quickly upwards and across. For faster passages,repparttar 109783 bow can be held while playing pizzicato, still usingrepparttar 109784 index finger but withoutrepparttar 109785 support ofrepparttar 109786 thumb. In more complex and advanced pieces, a small cross aboverepparttar 109787 stave indicatesrepparttar 109788 fingers ofrepparttar 109789 left hand pluckingrepparttar 109790 strings.

Fingering and positions

As there are no physical aids such as frets for violinists as there are for guitarists, accurate tuning comes with immense practice. On a full size violin,repparttar 109791 tones are roughly two centimeters apart, but this is difficult to judge when playing since you are seeing from a different perspective. To aid tuning, it is very helpful to have a piano or other keyboard instrument when practicing.

The fingers ofrepparttar 109792 left hand are conventionally named first (index finger) to fourth (little finger). When playing notes other than open strings (G, A, D and E), these fingers must press down hard, so thatrepparttar 109793 string is shortened convincingly for a higher pitch. The standard intervals taught to beginners is tone, tone, semitone, tone (ie. G-A-B-C-D, D-E-F#-G-A, A-B-C#-D-E, and E-F#-G#-A-B). Of courserepparttar 109794 notes in between can be played by rearrangingrepparttar 109795 hand position.

This is known as first position, whererepparttar 109796 first finger plays up to a tone aboverepparttar 109797 open string. The next position usually taught is third position, whererepparttar 109798 first finger playsrepparttar 109799 note a perfect fourth aboverepparttar 109800 open string (so, for example, third position onrepparttar 109801 A string would start onrepparttar 109802 D). All positions from first up to anywhere around tenth can be thus played, and two octaves on one string are considered fairly standard.

Looking for information about the violin? Go to: http://www.mrviolin.com 'Mr Violin' is published by Helen Baxter - The Complete A to Z Of Violin Resources! Check out more violin articles at: http://www.mrviolin.com/archive


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