His score calls for two pipa players, as well as a Chinese zither, a string section, two percussionists, and a battery of untraditional instruments, which, in addition to the klaxophone, include the Crystal Baschet (a series of glass rods played by moistened fingers) and the glass harmonica, an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin that looks like a glass kebab laid on its side.
Mr. Lindberg, a Finn and the composer in residence at the Philharmonic, said his idea was to inject a layer of mostly dry, metallic sounds into the battery of standard percussion instruments, which have a greater resonance.
Far more effective was Feldman's 1964 percussion piece 'The King of Denmark', in which Limbrick played his battery of instruments so quietly, with only the tips of his fingers, that you had to strain to hear whatever Feldman was trying to say.
This task will require the use of a battery of instruments – lasers to zap rocks, neutron beams to analyse soil and drills to break up samples – which will be put through their paces on this, the Nasa craft's first test drive.
Research on responsiveness generally presents the patients with a battery of instruments before and after a well-known efficacious intervention and then compares their responsiveness through some indexes which are based on the measurement of patient change.
It requires nineteen percussionists, who play an extraordinary battery of instruments, including anvils, stones, sirens, bells, ships' chains, shotguns, cannons, and a tree stump.
For that matter, there is also on display Phyfe's own elegant tool chest, fitted out with a battery of instruments for making furniture.
Did investigators use instruments that yield a single indicator or index number, a profile, or a battery of instruments?
