In those bands, he said, "the oud had lost its stature, becoming a merely decorative instrument".
The purpose of the display — of paintings, decorative arts, musical instruments, photography and works on paper — will be to illustrate both "the richness of the whole continent" and "the patterns of immigration and migration" that make up contemporary America, he said.
Each instrument has decorative inlays, with three decorated by Stradivari himself.
Finally, the decorative aspects of wind instruments will be treated.
With a little imagination and a sharp craft knife you can turn them into everything from decorative planters to musical instruments.
Inside those innocuous cartons, federal authorities said on Wednesday, were what appeared to be delicately carved and colorfully painted wooden objects, looking like statues, decorative snakes and musical instruments.
(Two years ago in London, Christie's held a landmark sale of old master paintings, medieval manuscripts, furniture, scientific instruments and decorative objects similarly restored to the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family).
Some galleries will be organized thematically, some according to period styles like Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, and some will mix paintings and sculptures with furniture, decorative objects and musical instruments.
Therefore, the presence of this kind of pigment could be considered compatible with the making and decorative techniques of musical instruments of that period.
