The phrase "alternative instruments" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to different tools or methods that can be used in place of traditional ones, often in contexts like finance, music, or research.
Example: "Investors are increasingly looking for alternative instruments to diversify their portfolios beyond conventional stocks and bonds."
Alternatives: "substitute tools" or "different methods".
"Modern civil society, modern technology has made possible alternative instruments, other sorts of teeth," he said.
There is therefore an urgent need to develop alternative instruments, focused on active management acts.
Fringe flapping, Jonny Greenwood dashes around all night, playing a sequence of alternative instruments – tambourine, keyboard, laptop, some kind of Theremin and effects pedals.
(Partch is known for his explorations of alternative instruments and pitches; this friendly little stringed instrument looks like a small cello).
Russia does seek to use its alternative instruments to influence western policy (as does everyone else), so there is undoubtedly more than a grain of truth in the "weaponisation" line – just as there is in the "Russophobia" one.
His current research is focused on environmental economics, including climate change, the economics of catastrophes, cost-benefit analysis, long-run discounting, green accounting, biodiversity, and comparison of alternative instruments for controlling pollution.
The alternative instrument is an annular shear cell, which is used less widely.
Two alternative instrument designs to the traditional Rowland grating spectrometer for high resolution ultra-soft X-ray spectroscopy are presented.
In this study we evaluated the Cellometer Image Cytometer as an alternative instrument for the FC-XM.
Additionally, the instrument is an experiment in alternative instrument design and material usage.
As an alternative instrument, we use variation in state licensure requirements for medical laboratory technicians.
