Sentence examples for common instruments from inspiring English sources

Common instruments include the organetto, an accordion most closely associated with the saltarello; the diatonic button organetto is most common in central Italy, while chromatic accordions prevail in the north.

Other common instruments of Bhutan include plucked lutes, struck zithers, and bamboo flutes.

Today cellphones have become our most common instruments of communication over distances.

Law enforcement officials suggest that killings with knives or other common instruments, box cutters, screwdrivers or even corkscrews, are hard to combat.

So it could be that if we don't manage to create common instruments to deal with this on a European level, we fall back on the illusion that we can face it through national instruments, which we see very clearly doesn't work.

Spaceborne laser altimeters are common instruments on-board the rendezvous spacecraft.

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.