instrument
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Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.
The crooner Rudy Vallee embraced the microphone as an instrument that enabled listeners to hear him as if he were singing directly into their ears.
Abbey loves “everything” about the music and dancing she tells me, excited to share that Mic personally gave her the tambourine and a few other instruments too.
From Los Angeles Times
The jump was thanks largely to unrealized changes in the value of derivative financial instruments used to manage foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity price risks, Enbridge said.
An electric keyboard programmed to sound like a fortepiano is also embedded in a handcrafted instrument, which actors with musical training can play.
From Los Angeles Times
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