We have taken this point partly into account by using continuous culture variables in the analyses, however, this cannot fully clear away some concerns about the appropriateness of use of this particular instrument in small practices.
His father played piano, and Mr. McGriff learned it from an early age; he went on to play saxophone and bass before settling on the Hammond organ, which became a common instrument in small-group jazz instrument only in the mid-'50s, largely because of the example of another Philadelphian, Jimmy Smith.
The folding chair explained, perhaps -- and a reminder that you don't need a big hall when you play purely acoustic instruments in a small folk ensemble.
Eleven o'clock on a blustery late March morning, and 15 students of the bass guitar are hunched over their instruments in a small but well-appointed classroom.
At Public School 199 in the heart of the Upper West Side, a music teacher who once had her own classroom now keeps her instruments in a small closet, stacking cymbals and drums onto a cart as she visits more than two dozen classes each week.
For years, Dr. Adams and his colleagues set up their instruments in a small shack on a steep slope at Bridger Bowl, about 15 miles from the university, and sent another researcher up the slope to ignite a two-pound bomb that set off an avalanche.
Finally, after the second session, each subject had to guess whether instruments in a small selection that included some of their favorites were old or new.
Disease-specific instruments are generally more responsive than generic instruments in detecting small changes over time, and are thus better suited as outcome measures in interventional studies [ 7, 8].
He quotes Nabokov's autobiography Speak, Memory: "Music, I regret to say, affects me as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds … The concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones".
