Sentence examples for concert instruments from inspiring English sources

One hears of them intermittently thereafter until they come to the fore in the mid-18th century as concert instruments.

It is one of the most important concert instruments in Hindustani music and is often accompanied by the tabla (drums) and tambura (drone lute).

Some prominent violinists have begun to use modern violins (or violins by "lesser" makers of the past) as their primary concert instruments.

There was a big collection in Prague at the National Museum with five Stradivariuses, a 1744 Guarneri del Gesù (Prince of Orange), a 1674 Andrea Guarneri violin, and several rare Italian concert instruments of very high quality.

"There was a big collection in Prague at the National Museum with five Stradivariuses, a 1744 Guarneri del Gesù (Prince of Orange), a 1674 Andrea Guarneri violin, and several rare Italian concert instruments of very high quality," Sipos told me in an interview in Bratislava last April.

It became a fashionable solo and garden concert instrument.

Andrés Segovia, performing his own transcription in the 1930's, persuaded doubters that the guitar was a legitimate concert instrument.

It is not widely used as a concert instrument but is quite prominent in jazz, in which it is a principal vehicle for melodic improvisation.

She has spent the 12 years since trying to free the organ from its church associations and to help the public see it as a normal concert instrument.

The piccolo trumpet, pitched an octave above the usual concert instrument, is capable of rising into the stratosphere, and so high does the part go that it was suggested the recording had been speeded up.

In the 20th century, Andrés Segovia gave the guitar further prominence as a concert instrument, and composers such as Heitor Villa-Lobos and Manuel de Falla wrote serious works for it; others (e.g., Pierre Boulez) scored for the guitar in chamber ensembles.