When he decided to leave that industry, Mr. MacDonald, who built and repaired instruments as an avocation, moved with his wife, June, a physical and dance therapist, to a 1920's arts and crafts bungalow in Huntington.
Although he has not bought or sold instruments with them, he considers them innovative, and supports their advocacy of instruments as an asset class worthy of the attention of nonmusical investors.
Last October, a proposal to adopt the American treatment of financial instruments as an interim standard was voted down, apparently because it was American.By contrast, America's accounting standards are among the world's most rigorous.
But it was his pupil Webern who, in his mature works, divided the individual components of melodic phrases over several instruments as an imaginatively coloristic reinforcement of the complex polyphony that characterized his style.
Stradivari (born 1644, died 1737) is believed by many to have built his finest instruments as an older and consequently more skilled craftsman.
Using the "purchase of equipment and instruments" as an example, on the one hand, oil companies should reduce their amount of equipment and instruments by improving their utilization.
