In a typical blend of class and savvy, Raitt expressed gratitude in the pre-telecast portion, mentioning that she "loves electronica" but also that she was happy to see "real instruments" regaining popularity.
The market for credit derivatives, widely blamed for helping destabilize markets, remains vast....Total return swaps -- a type of derivative that lost favor during the crisis -- are among the instruments regaining popularity, bankers and investors say....Even collateralized debt obligations, perhaps the biggest money-loser in Wall Street history, are staging a comeback of sorts.
Toumani in turn redoubled the instrument's popularity with a series of exquisite instrumental albums.
The instrument's popularity has spread not only across the Pacific Ocean, but also across the Atlantic.
In another sign of the instrument's popularity, composers are writing more music for tubas.
With the release in 1968 of the popular album Switched-On Bach, performed by Walter Carlos entirely on the Moog synthesizer, the instrument's popularity took off.
He even claimed to have taught a lick or two to Arthur Godfrey, whose ukulele playing on television sparked the instrument's popularity in the 1950s.
The speculum oculi (B in the illustration), an instrument whose popularity seems to have peaked in the 18th century, consisted of a pincer-like ring attached to a handle that housed a slit and sliding button.
The original Freshmen, whose singers all doubled on at least one instrument, enjoyed immense popularity in the 1950s and early '60s.
His own contributions to the development of piano technique coincided with the period of the new instrument's first popularity and did much to establish the lines on which piano playing was to develop; important traces of his influence may be found in the piano works of Haydn, Beethoven, and even Mozart, as well as the next generation of pianist-composers.
