instrument
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With their new recordings, two leading jazz pianists—Jason Moran and Marta Sanchez—are expanding the language of their instrument.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
The constraints of a limited instrument forced him to come up with new approaches to playing that wouldn’t otherwise have been necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
The most prominent instrument on the album is its layers of vocal treatments.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
At the time, The New York Times memorably called her "the blunt instrument knocking down their own Berlin Wall".
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Carl Orff came across an African xylophone, and developed a way to transform the xylophone into an instrument for the children at the school to play.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Vocabulary lists containing instrument
Macbeth's "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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