No symbolism is universal, however, and an instrument's sexual connotations may conflict: for example, a conch shell, which by its shape and derivation from a water animal is female, is generally made into a trumpet, usually considered a male instrument.
Musical instruments often carried erotic connotations in works of art of the period, and lust was referred to in moralising sources as the "music of the flesh".
Interpretability – the degree to which one can assign clinical or commonly understood connotations to an instrument's quantitative scores or change in scores [16] was not analysed in this study.
Wind instruments in particular often have sexual connotations.
To evoke militaristic connotations, composers incorporated into their works instruments associated with the "janissary sound," like triangle, cymbals and bass drum, as Haydn does in the second and fourth movements here.
As discussed earlier, each category (hearing instruments being one example) can have positive, neutral, or negative connotations depending on respondents' perception.
As the connotation of HRQOL shows cultural differences (ibid)., these instruments cannot be used offhand for comparing populations across different countries without difficulties.
We have become finely tuned instruments of semiotic analysis, capable of decoding at a glance the false enthusiasm of friends, the connotations of geotags, the tangle of opinions that lie embedded in a single turn of phrase.
Among these most frequently occurring categories, improved hearing and communication generally had positive connotations, disability generally had negative connotations, and the other categories (cost; appearance and design; hearing instruments) could have positive, neutral, or negative connotations.
This ability to imitate tones of the Maguindanao language using this instrument has given the gandingan connotation: the "talking gongs".
