Jim Johnson, an engineer from the university who helped design the instrument string, sat at a table nearby, frowning as he entered notes on the new problems in his log with a pencil.
Instrument string manufacturer D'Addario this year launched their Recycle and Restring events, which bring recycling into local music stores across the country, showing communities what sustainability could do for them.
With Mr. Schaefer's encouragement and support from sponsors including D'Addario, which manufactures instrument strings, he put together a jubilee that this year has grown to include 65 guitarists.
Originally, they primarily made violin string for bowed instruments and the harp; John D'Addario began experimenting with fretted instrument strings and different tensions and gauges and many of his advances are standard in the industry today.
Mr. Bezuidenhout moved to the fortepiano for the rest of the concert and filled out the first half of the program with two worthy rarities: a zesty, harmonically dark-hued Sonata in A minor by Georg Benda and a lively, sometimes tempestuous Concerto in F by Johann Wilhelm Hertel, for which Mr. Bezuidenhout was joined by Le Nuove Musiche, a period-instrument string quintet.
(Kozinn) ★ Quatuor Mosaïques (Wednesday) Long one of the most distinguished, polished and expressive period-instrument string quartets — and quartets, period, for that matter — Quatuor Mosaïques opens a two-concert visit to the 92nd Street Y with a program that includes Haydn's "Sunrise," Mendelssohn's Quartet in A minor (Op. 13) and Schubert's "Rosamunde".
We offer packages so that schools can select whether they want band instruments or string instruments, or a keyboard or guitar laboratory.
Acoustic guitars, wind instruments and string instruments help you get a more epic folk/power metal sound.
At the time, Montclair State University held the remarkable array of bespoke instruments — strings, keyboards, and percussion — that Partch had devised for his music.
The seismic monitoring system developed in the past few years consists of a network of instruments strung along the countryside like Christmas lights.
In short, it brings the same expressiveness found in traditional instruments (strings, brass, etc).
