Sentence examples for ensemble instruments from inspiring English sources

Typical ensemble instruments are the fiddle, the diatonic (button) accordion, the guitar, and spoons or the triangle.

Simultaneously, the violin and its family, because of their passionate brilliance and versatility, replaced viols as the standard ensemble instruments—especially quickly in Italy, where performance was less sophisticated, less mannered, and less restrained than in France.

"Also when people are sitting around a television set, they are not down at the meeting place, playing their gamelans [percussive ensemble instruments] or just bullshitting".

What has made the Maguindanao stand out from the other groups is that they practice solo gong contest – with individual players showcasing their skill on the various ensemble instruments – the agung, gandingan and the kulintang – as opposed to only group contest, where performers from one town and another town are pitted against each other.

Cottle caught both the vivacity and lightness of Pastorius's bass-guitar sound and its brass-like warmth and penetration as a theme-stating ensemble instrument.

"THE TURNTABLE AS ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENT," New York Society for Ethical Culture Auditorium, 2 West 64th Street, Manhattan, (212) 875-59212

While challenging the status quo, the use of turntables as an ensemble instrument is in fact nothing new.

Tickets: $15. "The Turntable as an Ensemble Instrument," tomorrow at 9 p.m., New York Society for Ethical Culture, 64th Street and Central Park West.

Low Library Rotunda, Columbia University, Broadway at 116th Street, Morningside Heights, Friday night at 9, with interactive displays at 7. "The Turntable as an Ensemble Instrument".

"FILAO," Damrosch Park Tent, 7 p.m. "WRITING TO VERMEER," New York State Theater, 8 p.m. "ELECTRONIC EVOLUTION 4: THE TURNTABLE AS AN ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENT," New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Tomorrow night, a program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, intriguingly called "The Turntable as an Ensemble Instrument," offers works by Cage and premieres by Raz Mesinai and the X-ecutioners.