Sentence examples for old-fashioned instruments from inspiring English sources

The band specializes in analog electronica: meticulous machine music, hazily recreated on old-fashioned instruments.

They play old-fashioned instruments ranging from piano, pedal steel and accordions to a funny gadget wound with a handle.

"We've been accused of being retro, using old-fashioned instruments, but we're doing it in quite an aggressive modern way.

British rock has become scared of technology, retreating into an arid world of old-fashioned instruments, analogue recording equipment and supposed "honesty".

But the leaflets are old-fashioned instruments compared with some of the others that are being applied already or are likely to be used soon.

After his boat is rammed by a wayward shipping container, he sets about patching the hull, setting the storm jib and eventually jumping into an inflatable lifeboat, which he navigates with old-fashioned instruments, charting a course by the stars.

And contrary to current fashion, investors want dividends in that old-fashioned instrument, cash dollars.

Not unexpectedly, William Safire has weighed in on this issue as well: "That's a retronym, a phrase with a modifier fixing a meaning to a noun that needed no modifier before: the shift to night baseball created day baseball, just as the invention of the electric guitar required us to call the old-fashioned instrument an acoustic guitar".

The old-fashioned instrument panel and steering wheel, to our eyes, seem more hokey than cool more like ornaments to jazz up a bland cockpit than integral elements of a truly killer, nostalgic design (say, that of the controls in Ford's GT supercar, which is also nostalgic but much sharper-looking and more of a piece).

What a wonderful, old-fashioned instrument she has.

Russ Maschmeyer doesn't have anything against old-fashioned musical instruments.