Sentence examples for a common instrument from inspiring English sources

German is still heard on the streets, and the accordion is a common instrument at the high school.

For the first time the struck medal became a common instrument of court propaganda, especially for the popes and for the ruling Medici family in Florence.

By then, as images spread and gained power, photographs were a common instrument for mild self-aggrandizement and the kind of self-invention that pervades so much studio portraiture and so many family albums.

The choirs photographed here are part of a single global tradition, and they share a common instrument -- the human voice -- but the sounds they produce couldn't be more diverse.

In democratic Anglo-Saxon countries, militarized police units, embedded within a police force and lacking institutional autonomy, are a common instrument of policing crowds; all large police forces in those countries have such units.

His father played piano, and Mr. McGriff learned it from an early age; he went on to play saxophone and bass before settling on the Hammond organ, which became a common instrument in small-group jazz instrument only in the mid-'50s, largely because of the example of another Philadelphian, Jimmy Smith.

If you already know how to read music and have at least a basic understanding of a more common instrument, you'll have a lot more luck with learning the new one.

Trumpet/Cornet - The trumpet is a common brass instrument, and the cornet is a smaller instrument that is very similar.

The B soprano was the most common instrument, but a few early jazz musicians such as Louis Nelson Delisle and Alcide Nunez preferred the C soprano, and many New Orleans jazz brass bands have used E soprano.

Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC) is a reliable, valid and transculturally common instrument [ 24] which surveys long-term life orientation and beliefs, partly looking backwards, partly looking into the future, which reflect the understandability, importance and manageability of life events and stressors [ 8, 9].

A settling chamber is the most common instrument for applying biological aerosols to surfaces.