On stages from Croydon to Bath, from Southport to Yeovil, they wore smart suits and ties and played peculiar instruments.
American elections are peculiar instruments of democracy, because they are so consistent in whom they leave out.
His studio is littered with peculiar instruments: rare guitars, ukuleles, a pump organ from Egypt, a Roland analog synthesizer from the 1970s, stacks of cheap Yamaha and Casio keyboards and assorted percussion instruments, toy pianos and accordions.
Others have used peculiar instruments, perhaps in an attempt to jump onto a bandwagon, like the late-18th-century vogue for the glass harmonica or the mid-20th-century infatuation with the theremin.
But then I happened to see a performer called Duke Special in Los Angeles, who had short hair on one side of his head, dreadlocks on the other, wore red bell-bottoms and some sort of cravat, and played a lot of peculiar instruments.
In pre-Islamic times, idiophones such hand bells, cymbals, and peculiar instruments resembling gongs came into wide use in Hindu music.
BENEATH a railway arch in a grubby corner of east London, the staff of Roli are making a peculiar musical instrument.
My favorite item was a peculiar 19th-century instrument known as a giraffe piano, so called because its sounding board is mounted upright instead of horizontally.
Making instruments sound peculiar, when composers demand it, is part of every new-music group's bag of technical tricks, and the Da Capo Chamber Players have become adept at it.
Each of the peculiar objects was a musical instrument, created by Mr. Horner's team to make the kind of odd sounds that might come from the Baroque-meets-Dali instruments drawn by Dr. Seuss for his Whoville town band.
