Sentence examples for instruments from high-quality English sources.

• The instruments were largely of steel.

• Seismic Instruments is a journal devoted to the description of geophysical instruments used in seismic research.

• The Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels celebrates the making of music with thousands of instruments from around the world.

• Today stringed instruments are found throughout the world.

• The Hindu attitude toward stringed instruments is very different.

• Other instruments have been borrowed from non-European countries.

• Finally, the decorative aspects of wind instruments will be treated.

• Cave paintings and rock carvings show an impressive variety of instruments.

Use instruments in a sentence.

• Central Mexicans also play Spanish instruments such as the violin, guitar, and harp.

• Central Mexicans also play Spanish instruments such as the violin, guitar, and harp.

• Treaties, however, are not the only instruments by which international agreements are concluded.

• Although most transposing instruments belong to the woodwind and brass families, transposing keyboard instruments have also been built.

• The names of both these instruments are applied also to other brass instruments of similar range and used differently from country to country.

• (See also electronic instruments; percussion instruments; stringed instruments; wind instruments; band; orchestra.)

• The wind instruments subdivide into edge instruments, reedpipes, and trumpet-type instruments according to their manner of tone production.

• Although it focuses on the families of instruments that have been prominent in Western art music, it also includes coverage of non-Western and folk instruments.

instruments sentence examples

• His opera Orfeo was first performed at Mantua in 1607 with an orchestra of about 40 instruments, including flutes, cornetts, trumpets, trombones, strings, and keyboard instruments.

• Flutelike instruments of many sizes, made from bones and wood, and elaborate percussion instruments figure prominently in all early cultures, in which these instruments often were assigned symbolic significance associated with forces of the supernatural.

• The genres of Latin American and Caribbean urban popular music that developed in the 20th century incorporated musical instruments of all three traditions, most often European string, woodwind, brass, and keyboard melodic instruments supported by Indian or African-derived harmonic and rhythmic instruments.

• The dominant silk instruments are the erhu (spike fiddle), small sanxian (long-necked fretless lute), pipa (short-necked fretted lute), and yangqin (struck zither); the dominant bamboo instruments are di (transverse flute), xiao (vertical flute), and sheng (mouth organ), all very common Chinese instruments.