Sentence examples for instruments half from inspiring English sources

"In all, we probably had twenty different parts on six different instruments — half synthetic, half real".

In 2010 Mr. Fischer presented all the Beethoven symphonies, half on period instruments, half on modern; in 2011 he offered Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in his own staging; and in April he led Mozart's Requiem with choristers intermingled among the orchestra to give the players a better feel for the text.

While her father was a guitarist, many of the songs on Hanoi Masters are performed on ancient Vietnamese instruments half-forgotten by almost everyone but these master musicians.

And he writes a paean to Joyce's prose: "this incredible instrument, half wand, half weapon".

Fantasia opens with live action scenes of members of an orchestra gathering against a blue background and tuning their instruments in half-light, half-shadow.

Dozens of pairs of eyeglasses, 20 or so musical instruments, a half dozen bicycles and a four-foot-long space heater.

Western mothers think they are being strict when they insist that their children practice their instruments for half an hour a day.

From the start, the leaders of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra thought there was something strange about an offer made by Herbert R. Axelrod, a pet-care book publisher from the Jersey Shore, to sell the orchestra his $50 million collection of rare stringed instruments at half price.

The government will also reduce the indexation of the complex healthcare component of the funding instrument by half, while establishing a $53m "transitional assistance" fund.

Spending lavishly and recording in a variety of Los Angeles studios, Jones combined what he called "ear candy" (odd instruments playing half-buried melody lines) with rhythms that were both elastic and simple enough to convince almost anyone they could dance.

And they made a wooden casing the surface of which represented the horizon, since the instrument was half sunk in it.