Sentence examples for makeshift instruments from inspiring English sources

Five wind and brass players are given an array of percussion — triangles and gongs dangled from several music stands — while the percussion section proper is supplemented with bottles, cans, and other makeshift instruments.

These scenes are preposterous in a movie that was already ridiculous, but it gets us to wonderful moments like the gang breaking into song at the Santa Monica pier, using stray garbage as makeshift instruments.

Breaking the unwritten rule that theatre for the over-sevens has to send young audiences out on an upbeat note, Noël Greig's final play is an engaging and often dark piece of storytelling delivered by a single actor, two musicians and an army of traditional and makeshift instruments.

Mr. Baptista fooled with the makeshift instruments scattered about the room as he worked through his résumé, starting as a schoolboy in Brazil who won a scholarship to study music in New York in the 1970's, moving forward to his collaborations with Caetano Veloso and Herbie Hancock and recent work as a hired gun on John Zorn's experimental Tzadik label.

Not only did we (which now included a French journalist and another Atlanta writer) get to admire the many costumes, which have changed over the years, but we also got an experiential glimpse as donned hats, played makeshift instruments like cowbells, blew our whistles and marched and dance with the Junkanoo spirit.

A Surrealism Wall of optical illusions explains how artists can play tricks on the eye; kids of all ages will enjoy making noise — or even music — in a room filled with makeshift percussion instruments or a floor lined with musical pressure pads.

Two full rows of seats behind mine had been removed to accommodate this (presumably empty) tank, a makeshift percussion instrument for the Philharmonic's performance of Magnus Lindberg's "Kraft," in its New York premiere, conducted by Alan Gilbert.

To the beat of rosewood-and-brass hammers, Xiu Xiu play a makeshift gamelan of metal instruments, including cymbals, bells, triangles, vibraphones, and the occasional whistle.

During his stay the medical staff made an effort to stimulate motor activity and relieve boredom by encouraging their patients to join the hospital band, leading to his first exposure to a percussion instrument; a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his bed.

The lineup remains makeshift.

Thousands live in makeshift tents.