Sentence examples for colored instruments from inspiring English sources

Many metal performers of the 1970s and 1980s used radically shaped and brightly colored instruments to enhance their stage appearance.

Dressed in red and pale blue zip-up tops, the musicians swayed with rainbow colored instruments in a spectacle where the classical played alongside — and not as loudly as — the mega-pop world of divas and glitter.

Her early reviews were encouraging; a Hamburg critic praised her "strong, darkly colored instrument, well developed in the lower register".

For years, young drivers in the Los Angeles area have been customizing Honda Accords and Civics with fat tires, spoilers and brightly colored instrument panels.

Carved boards, decorated cards, dotted cubes and colored pebbles become instruments of war.

Mr. Ferneyhough plays subdued, legato choral sound against a brightly colored band of instruments heavy on clarinets and mallet percussion.

Then take a trip to a virtual island full of candy colored objects, musical instruments, and shimmering portals in Playthings, a virtual reality game revolving around music, with floating junk food that acts as instruments.

As you walk through the two chronologically arranged galleries, don't be surprised if you find yourself rubbing your eyes as you count only 61, or in some cases 73 or 75 or 85, cream-colored keys on instruments of earlier eras, rather than the standard 88 of pianos today.

Way back in the early 1900s, the Russian composer Alexandr Scriabin invented what he called the tastiéra per luce, an instrument that projected colored light corresponding to musical notes organized according to a chromatic scale.

Brightly colored oil drums, bongos and other instruments, particularly the Nigerian udu, which sounds at times like a glass gourd, a bass, a drone or a bouncing ball, lend an atmosphere of exoticism to the proceedings.

The miners working in this colored region should use personal protection instruments.