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BONGO [7 records]

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Record 1 2024-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Percussion Instruments
DEF

One of a pair of connected tuned drums that are played by beating with the hands.

OBS

bongo : The plural form is "bongos" or "bongoes. "

OBS

bongo; bongo drum : designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • bongos
  • bongoes
  • bongo drums

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
DEF

Instrument à percussion formé de deux petits tambours, recouverts de peau et fixés ensemble, que l'on tient entre les jambes.

OBS

bongo : Le pluriel est parfois employé pour désigner l'ensemble constitué par les deux tambours.

OBS

bongo : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • bongos

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

bongo drum : an item in the "Musical Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Communication" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

bongo : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de musique» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour la communication».

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

... tested the 20-cm bongo sampler against the widely used Gulf III encased sampler. Ten tows were made at 6 knots for 30 minutes with both samplers on the same towing wire... The mouth openings of both were the same... The catches consisted of a mixture of zooplankters, about 80% copepods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

La récolte des œufs a été effectuée à l'aide d'un échantillonneur bongo ayant un diamètre de 61 cm et des filets ayant des mailles de 333 microns.

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Percussion Instruments
CONT

... non-pitched percussion instruments produce only one pitch per instrument.

OBS

Examples of non-pitched percussion instruments include maracas, bongo drums, castanets, cymbals.

Key term(s)
  • un-pitched percussion instrument

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
CONT

Les instruments de percussion à sons indéterminés produisent, comme leur nom l'indique, des sons qui sont indéterminés, c'est-à-dire qu'ils ne correspondent à aucune note particulière. Ils produisent plutôt des effets sonores. Les maracas, les cymbales, la batterie et le bâton de pluie en sont que quelques exemples.

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-11-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Diplomacy
OBS

In reference to the Republic of the Congo. Headed by President Omar Bongo, Head of State of Gabon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Diplomatie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Diplomacia
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Record 6 1997-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Oceanography
OBS

Stops at various positions along the towing wire allow a series of(bongo) samplers to be used for simultaneous collections(eg, of plankton, eggs) at different depths.

OBS

Fish Sciences Vol 1 91-99, "The MARMAP Bongo Zooplankton Samplers".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Océanographie
OBS

Le temps de remonte des traits verticaux, la lecture des debimètres ainsi que la longueur de câble déroulée lors de la descente des filets ont été notés dans le but de calculer le volume (d'eau) filtre.

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Central Sudanic language of the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan family spoken by the Bongo, a people of eastern Sudan

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue nilo-saharienne parlée par les Bongos, groupe ethnique vivant à l'est du Soudan.

Spanish

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