Sentence examples for peculiar instruments from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

The most famous tale, the one Hampton himself recalls, is that he was at a recording session for another Hite band, this one led by Louis Armstrong, when he first laid eyes on the peculiar instrument.

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.

The troupe, which spurred scores of imitators, advertised its "delineations of the sports and pastimes of the Southern slave race of America," which its players would "illustrate through the medium of songs, refrains, lectures and dances, accompanying themselves on instruments of a peculiar nature".