Twitter's new design seems intended to position it as a more mainstream instrument - and a vehicle for a new era of 140-character advertising.
The University of South Carolina, now a model for the rest of the country, is doing work here that may at best keep the violin a mainstream instrument and at worst provide it a permanent niche.
Music education is often one of the first things to go when schools cut budgets, and if students have an interest in learning a less-mainstream instrument, they can have a hard time finding the resources to do so.
And what did her re-embrace of it say not only about her, but about the clarinet's potential to become a mainstream jazz instrument again?
Mainstream music borrowed instruments such as the cello, saxophone, and accordion; melodies and rhythms from European serious and light music; the concept of large ensembles; and the use of electronic amplification.
Pretension is an accusation often thrown at this band, who are too cool for the avant garde, too serious for the mainstream, and whose instruments admittedly include cracker-covered melons smashed with hammers.
A subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange launches trading on Dec. 26 for its first-ever marijuana fund, a major step for an industry that's struggled to access mainstream U.S. financial instruments, even as Canadian markets have kicked off marijuana investment.
Too often, pupils are taken out of mainstream classes for instrument lessons, and have to make up work later.
Mr. Hoggard, a vibraphonist, was active in New York's loft-jazz scene in the 1970's, playing with musicians like Chico Freeman; he became one of the first-call players on his instrument in mainstream jazz thereafter.
By the mid-1980s, synthadp helpedlpestablishish the synthesizer as a primary instrument in mainstream pop music.
