Mary is allotted the viola - significantly, Beamish's own instrument.
It's a more amazing sound even than that of Messiaen's own instrument.
Soon he opened his own instrument store, now one of the largest in Wuhan.
Pupils were then expected to buy their own instrument and pay for their lessons.
Mordecai Shehori, a concert pianist in New York, is the rare pianist who tunes his own instrument.
Owning your own instrument is a plus, the panelists said, especially if your instrument is of good quality.
Wood gave him his own instrument and was reduced to playing air guitar to an audience of two billion.
Y OU come in with your own instrument every night," he said, "and you've got to be ready to jump in and play as hard as you can.
Alisa Nakashian-Holsberg of Westford, Mass., recalled how Mr. Finkenbeiner let her help tune and test her own instrument to save money when she was a college student.
The problem of hearing loss, stemming both from the player's own instrument and from those of others, is a real one among classical musicians worldwide.
And so, two years later, after absorbing lessons from visiting volunteer luthiers and a three-month apprenticeship in Italy, Mr. Shelaldeh, 18, has his own instrument repair shop.
