Sentence examples for instruments later from inspiring English sources

But the invention of such instruments later in the 18th century did not do much for early navigators of the air in the 20th.

Ms. Gordon is a member of that hardy group of amateur musicians who pick up instruments later in life, defiers of the "can't teach old dogs new tricks" truism.

An Indian investigation blamed cockpit instruments; later in civil lawsuits in the United States, a federal court in Washington State found the pilot had been drinking at a New Year's Eve party, Mr. Hayes said.

The oxhorns of medieval huntsmen and watchmen sounded but one or two notes of the natural harmonic series i.e., the notes produced on a horn or trumpet without finger holes or valves, caused by the air column vibrating in fractional segments (as for the fundamental note C: c g c′ e′ g′ b♭′ [approximate pitch] c″ d″ e″, etc).. From these instruments later modern metal horns were developed.

This unit was applied to the Stradivari instruments, later to all Cremonese violins.

Spouge instrumentation originally consisted of cowbell, bass guitar, trap set and various other electronic and percussion instruments, later augmented by saxophone, trombone and trumpets.

Before the Tang dynasty (618 907 ce), the term xiao denoted a multi-tube instrument later known as the paixiao, or panpipe.

They shared tales of their Irish, Scottish and English ancestry; Virginia has that settler makeup, though it also had a German influx – which brought the dulcimer, an instrument later co-opted into the Appalachian sound.

Organum, plural Organa, originally, any musical instrument (later in particular an organ); the term attained its lasting sense, however, during the Middle Ages in reference to a polyphonic (many-voiced) setting, in certain specific styles, of Gregorian chant.

My composing studio was in the Casa Rustica, rebuilt on the site of a 16th-century villa known as Casino Malvasia, where Garibaldi was defeated in a decisive battle by French forces in 1849 and near where Galileo demonstrated his "instrument," later known as the telescope, in 1611, training it onto the dome of the Pantheon a little more than a mile down the Janiculum Hill.

Several East Asian free reed instruments, including the shō, were modeled on the sheng, an ancient Chinese folk instrument later incorporated into more formal musical contexts.