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NPSNational Park Service
NPSNet Promoter Score (customer management)
NPSNaval Postgraduate School
NPSNational Prescribing Service Limited (Department of Health and Ageing; Australia)
NPSNorfolk Public Schools (Virginia)
NPSNetwork Policy Server (Microsoft)
NPSNative Plant Society
NPSNational Policy Statement (various locations)
NPSNational Public Seating
NPSNon-Point Source pollution
NPSNational Preparedness System (US FEMA)
NPSNational Power Supply (various locations)
NPSNewark Public Schools (New Jersey)
NPSNIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency) Products Server
NPSNational Patient Safety
NPSNational Poetry Series (est. 1978)
NPSNormal Power Supply (energy)
NPSNominal Pipe Size
NPSNetwork Policy Server
NPSNovell Productivity Specialist
NPSNetwork Play System
NPSNational Program Service
NPSNetwork Planning Solution
NPSNetscape Proxy Server
NPSNetwork Print Server
NPSNovel Psychoactive Substance (drug)
NPSNew Product Success
NPSNational Payments System (various organizations)
NPSNational Pharmaceutical Stockpile
NPSNail-Patella Syndrome
NPSNew Product Showcase
NPSNon-Prior Service (military personnel)
NPSNorthville Public Schools (Michigan)
NPSNational Provider System
NPSNon-Personal Services
NPSNuclear Power School
NPSNoise Power Spectrum (measures image noise in digital and film-based images)
NPSNationale Partij Suriname (Suriname National Party)
NPSNorthern Power Systems
NPSNewfoundland Pony Society (St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada)
NPSNikon Professional Service (Nikon Corporation)
NPSNational Planning Scenario (US FEMA)
NPSNotes Per Second (music)
NPSNational Program Service (PBS)
NPSNational Philatelic Society (Great Britain)
NPSNuclear Power Source
NPSNational Pharmaceuticals Strategy (Canada)
NPSNational Park Seminary (private girls school)
NPSNational Paintball Supply
NPSNational Pesticide Survey
NPSNetwork Protection Service
NPSNew Pricing Scheme (India)
NPSNumerical Pain Scale
NPSNetwork Printer Series (Xerox printer family for Postscript and PCL data streams)
NPSNATO Pipeline System
NPSNetwork Planning System
NPSNetwork Planning Solution (Cisco)
NPSNATO Precautionary System
NPSNon-Pot Smoker
NPSNorthampton Public Schools (Massachusetts, USA)
NPSNetPerSec (connection speed testing program)
NPSNederlandse Programmastichting
NPSNorthland Primary School (Singapore)
NPSNeuropsychiatric Symptom (cognitive function)
NPSNational Photographic Society (UK)
NPSNeedham Public School (Needham, MA, USA)
NPSNational Piers Society (UK; est. 1979)
NPSNaviplan Standard (financial planning software)
NPSNational Presortation Schematic (Canada Post Corporation)
NPSNational Pipe Straight Thread
NPSNuclear Planning System (US DoD)
NPSNational Permit Strategy
NPSNonprobability Sample
NPSNeonatal/Pediatric Respiratory Care Specialist
NPSNet Proceeds of Sale(s)
NPSNo Problem Sir
NPSNovell Portal Service
NPSNetwork Participation Status
NPSNewsletter for the Procurement Service (BiP Solutions)
NPSNorthampton Preparatory School (UK)
NPSNuclear Power Ship
NPSNetwork Product Server
NPSNon-Priority-Based Scheduling
NPSNMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Process Systems LLC (Danbury, CT)
NPSCoalición Nuevo Partido Socialista
NPSNetwork Protection Suite (Hostin Services; India)
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This is on a machine that Is processing 40 notes per second,' said David.
There really isn't a duff track here - Textures, for example, finds Toussaint, who has always struck me as insistently no-nonsense and sometimes over-muscular in his music, really laying back with a simple, beautifully intoned soprano improvisation full of melody and feeling with little thought for number of notes per second or any of that nonsense.
This calculates to 1.8 seconds, leading to a playing speed of 35 notes per second, a rapidity that any modern keyboard player would be proud of.
Quantz (1752) indicated that the fastest speed was 10.7 notes per second (eight notes per pulse beat, which he defined as 80 beats per minute) in articulated notes (`with double tonguing or with bowing') played by competent musicians.
As discussed above, only exceptional instrumentalists could play as fast as 16 notes per second. Thus the appearance of demisemiquavers in a published source would imply that the tempo for a minim was significantly less than MM 60.