Overbend
"Overbend" in a Sentence (34 examples)
The heavens grow wonderful with purple hue, Soft, rich and deep, peace giving to mine eyes. They overbend the square , Above whose entrance fair The arch , by the Republic set , doth rise In high triumphal state;
Long ranges of mountain unfold to the left, and here and there thick willows overbend the stream, where lock-tenders sit peacefully with their families before the cabin doorways.
Almost opposite Clarence House, and immediately adjoining the Swan Hotel, is a lofty and somewhat narrow structure of four storeys, whose twin gablets overhang and overbend the street in quite a serious manner.
About half a mile from St. John's College is the termination of a natural terrace, with the Cherwell close under it, in some places bright with yellow and red flowers glancing and glowing through the stream, and suddenly in others dark with the shadows of many different trees, in broad, overbending thickets, and with rushes spear-high, and party-coloured flags.
If you sharpen a razor too much you will notch the edge, and if you overbend the bow, at last 'twill break .
It is more frequently used to overbend predictable small springback.
This becomes even more critical if you overbend and have to unbend in some area. It can be tricky to spot where the overbend is located.
In light air conditions be careful not to overbend the mast or you will turn the sail inside out.
Work carefully; you don't want to overbend the cage.
Turning to a clean page I over-exaggeratingly overbend the binding for to help the notebook to lay flat.
There are three simple, golden rules: • do not overbend the hip (flex beyond a right-angle); • do not cross the leg over the midline (adduct beyond neutral); • do not twist in either standing or sitting.
When you approach the bottom of the arch on the opposite side, overbend the rebar a bit since it will tend to spring back; then, reposition the rebar against the inside blocks, and continue to have a helper add hold-down blocks until you've created the entire hoop.
If you as a rider now 'offer' too much rein contact, the horse will overbend (the front part of the neck shapes into the 'false bend' and the highest point is no longer the poll, but at the second or third cervical vertebra).
Try not to overbend that B flat.
Try it very slowly and listen hard to the sound you make – don't 'overbend' the string as you move it as good vibrato begins with only a minor variation improvement.
However, they do require a lot of control – be careful here not to overbend and overshoot your target note.
Some mid-priced models respond faborably to overbending, but they work much better with reed adjustment.
It's easier to overbend on harps in lower keys than higher keys.
While these modifications make the harmonica overbend more easily, overbending is often possible on stock diatonic harmonica, especially on an airtight design.
The overbend occurs mainly on the laybarge/vessel and the stinger. The setting of the rollers to obtain a radius of curvature is the main control of the overbend.
To find the number of degrees in the combination bend, square the side bend and the sag or overbend; add them together and extract the square root.
Local buckling is most likely to occur in either the overbend or sagbend regions.
This becomes even more critical if you overbend and have to unbend in some area. It can be tricky to spot where the overbend is located.
At present they are deep, indicating 'overbend,' because I am flattening the sail to a depth that is shallower than what I cut it to. In effect, you are getting two mainsails here – a flat one with overbend wrinkles , and a normal one without overbend wrinkles.
The hook area also includes a back-pusher contour which allows the bender to grab on in reverse to remove an overbend or to shift the bend from side to side.
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This unit features precalculation of required overbend, which Datex calls " adaptive springback compensation."
This incorporated the correct amount of overbend at each point to allow the frame to fit well after it had cooled off and sprung back .
Design the form to allow for overbend (20 to 30%), to compensate for springback. Too much overbend is better than too little.
Figure 32 is an example of an overbend on the G string: Note how my 2nd and 1st fingers are helping the 3rd finger to bend the string , while the index finger serves the added function of pushing the other strings out of the way .
It perfectly embodies the idea of a "feel solo," with its brilliant excursion, rife with crying bends, overbends, and just the right amount of space to let the notes resonate.
That said, Jimmy's taste was no less eclectic, the young guitarist already familiar with the wild overbends of Buddy Guy, the economical beauty of Howlin' Wolf's Hubert Sumlin and even the lush Indian sitar stylings of Ravi Shankar, of whom Page was an extremely early and vocal supporter.
The note you hear when you play an overbend seems to pop out of nowhere, with no slide up from another note.
To reach a specific overbend note you'll have to control your breath and align the shape of the inside of your mouth to coincide with the frequency of the desired note.
Although there are players who use precise overbends and bends to play the diatonic harmonica as a fully chromatic instrument, this is still very rare, not simply because the technique is difficult, but also because the sound of an overbend is different from the sound of other notes, as is also the case of normal bent notes.
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