In surgery, assistants are needed to hold retractors, instruments that keep the incision open; one enterprising doctor displays a special clamp he has invented, patented and will be selling: a U-shaped gizmo that will make surgical assistants unnecessary.
Self-censorship and hypocrisy are the main instruments that keep the many groups away from each other's throats.
Ms. Upshaw's silvery voice, with its sure technique, is a finely honed instrument that she keeps in a gear neutral enough to allow it to wrap itself around music of any style, period or provenance.
The star of the show, though, is a tireless bowed-instrument solo that keeps up its pace for almost the entirety of the track's duration it may take a couple of listens for you to follow of all its movements.
And though dexterous and melodic use is made of piano, strings and wind and brass instruments, the sound that keeps coming to the fore is that of a drum, beaten slowly, with ominous insistence.
Now I view my physical self as an instrument that I have to keep going because I'm a mother, and I have to be as healthy as I can for those three people who need me -- more than I need for myself to be in a f**ing nude scene". .
Now I view my physical self as an instrument that I have to keep going because I'm a mother, and I have to be as healthy as I can for those three people who need me -- more than I need for myself to be in a fucking nude scene".
Perhaps the same spirit that keeps period instrument orchestras flourishing has granted an unusually long life to the theremin, the spooky-sounding electronic instrument invented by Leon Theremin in the 1920's.
He fell in love with playing the tamburica -- a Croatian instrument that resembles the mandolin -- and kept up on all the popular music from the "old country".
Others eventually run out of fuel – or, in the case of the Spitzer space telescope, the coolant that keeps its infrared instruments in working order.
