Sentence examples for coloured instruments from inspiring English sources

At first you do wonder if they think you're a right plonker, coming in and giving them brightly coloured instruments".

Known in the above form since the 11th century, the Irish harp belonged to the world of strongly coloured medieval instruments and survived almost unchanged in Ireland until the end of the 17th century.

More particularly, we have developed two prototypes which transform HSL coloured pixels into spatialised classical instrument sounds lasting for 300 ms. Hue is sonified by the timbre of a musical instrument, saturation is one of four possible notes, and luminosity is represented by bass when luminosity is rather dark and singing voice when it is relatively bright.

Fig. 2 Detail of wall painting on coloured background polished with a hard instrument.

The Philharmonia's string sound was sumptuous, and the augmented brass in particular revelled in the chance to play some of the most richly coloured music that Wagner ever wrote for their instruments.

He is coloured white and has as his symbol a stringed instrument.

A cuboid mass of shiny silver-coloured metal, 2-metres (6.5-feet) high and covered in delicate instruments and antennae.

The men, coloured dark as pitch, are urged on by white overseers "armed with fearsome instruments".This is a big and transporting novel, historical but modern, political but also that rare thing: a good yarn.

Its acid-coloured DNA windows, pastel-pill bar stools, cabinets of Cronenberg-esque surgical instruments – all Hirst artworks, of course; you can almost smell them increasing in value – just add up to a bit of a headache.

The band's heads and instruments are live action footage, filmed in London, while their bodies and surroundings are brightly coloured animations.

A meeting with Stephen and Damien Marley may have coloured his perspective, but it was the working methods he developed that really shaped his future: lacking a single instrument, he and Sabbo began cutting and pasting their old recordings.