Part of that proposal, putting bar codes on every instrument for the first time, is already being phased in over the next few years.
On Sunday, the rover fired a laser instrument for the first time, hitting a rock with 30 bursts in 10 seconds and analyzing the atomic makeup from the resulting flashes of light.
To reach approximate jovian conditions in the lab, a new gas spectroscopy facility was developed and used to measure self-broadened ammonia spectra from 0.74 to 5.2 μm, virtually the complete range of the NIMS instrument, for the first time.
He revelled in the fact that he could use clarinets for the first time in a symphony, having heard the new instrument for the first time in Mannheim, where he had toured before coming to Paris; there are horns, trumpets, and timpani, and a full compliment of woodwind – flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons, the biggest orchestra Mozart had used in a symphonic context.
Drake Music, a charity which helps disabled people access music, developed a customised airharp, which enabled Hannah to play an instrument for the first time.
The 'Ukulele: A History explores all of these facets, placing the instrument for the first time in a broad historical, cultural, and musical context.
He played the first five Bach suites on a modern instrument — for the sixth he used an authentic five-string cello — but his intimate, conversational phrasing echoed what we vaguely know of Baroque practice.
In the first of the two movements, he plays an alto flute, often at the very top of its range, before taking up the standard instrument for the second, while the two flutes in the orchestra (which lacks violins) extend that sound world with piccolo and bass flute.
The instrument for the second round included some new concepts that had not been included in the first round.
