But the instrument itself was old-fashioned, gaudy, and domestic.
The same can be said of the instrument itself.
The instrument itself, like the bells, was called a cymbala.
"The main motivation was that it would be fantastic publicity for the instrument itself," he says.
It would only be a matter of time before the instrument recording the sound became the instrument itself.
More improbable than the instrument itself is that she was able to coax a haunting melody from it.
What makes a violin "Baroque" is, in fact, not the age of the instrument itself, but rather the setup.
Like Schnabel, too, he had the ability, in passages of exceptional emotional depth, to make the listener forget the performer and perhaps even the instrument itself.
Idiophones produce musical sound by vibrating when the body of the instrument itself is struck, stamped, shaken, scraped, rubbed, or plucked.
Sure enough, the opening chords erupted from the piano, fast and fortississimo, the listener if not the instrument itself quaking at the impact as Matsuev threw, with beefy elegance, his full weight at the keyboard.
"What I find very beautiful is that it is not the instrument itself that creates the sound but the interaction between the instrument and the water and the glass.
