Hands move across instruments out of time, displaced from their own creations, as if the music itself has been set free from any form of governance.
The off-farm employment opportunities provided by food processing may thus represent the first instrument of time-smoothing in the labour market and, as such, is an important factor of capital accumulation in rural areas.
Next to the reduction of overtime hours and other instruments of working time flexibility if available at the firm level (e.g., working time accounts), short-time work was the instrument through which this could be managed at reasonable costs.
The group, the Federal Music Society, was an ensemble of 26 players who used instruments of that time, roughly 1775 to 1830, from Mr. Selch's collection.
Last July, John Grunsfeld, an astronaut, waxed enthusiastic about the value and sheer pleasure of participating in servicing missions to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most productive scientific instruments of all time.
Her voice, luminous and smoky and perfectly pitched, is one of the most wondrous rhythm-and-blues instruments of our time; it needs no ornamentation to stand on a pedestal by itself.
What's interesting to me is the way Beethoven's compositions transcend the instruments of their time, forcing the piano builders to develop ever greater sonority and technological refinement.
Flow tests using scale models determined that actual water flows in floods occurring in 1844 and 1903 could not possibly have been as high as were estimated using instruments of the time.
