traditional instrument

collocation in English

meaningsoftraditionalandinstrument

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traditional
adjective
uk
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/
following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time ...
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instrument
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/us
/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/
an object, such as a piano, guitar, or drum, that is played to produce ...
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Relevant questions about cross-cultural borrowing and the impact of electronics on the sounds and performance technique of atraditionalinstrumentare discussed.
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I refer to this as the 'feature-rich' current of instrument design, where the features are borrowed from a traditional mode of playing atraditionalinstrument.
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Placement of sensors and the design of its digital signal processing build upon the physical characteristics, and expand upon the acoustical features, of thistraditionalinstrument.
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Most of the respondents (94%) did not consider themselves as music professionals, but almost as many of them wrote songs, and more than half played atraditionalinstrumentactively.
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But this is only a limiting case of a problem that exists in any live interaction with electronics, including the case in which atraditionalinstrumentis present.
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The repertory of thistraditionalinstrumentis known only through records of older players, or people who have known them.
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The frula is atraditionalinstrumentof shepherds, who would play while tending their flocks.
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Nanny's monument reproduces the sound of the abeng, atraditionalinstrumentused by the fighters.
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Is often performed with a 6-string nylon acoustic guitar, but the mosttraditionalinstrumentis the viola caipira.
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Well into his eighties, he had been playing thetraditionalinstrumentsince the late 1920s.
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The interior has also been completely redesigned, with the use of a moretraditionalinstrumentcluster and notably higher-quality materials.
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Instruments had to be designed and made in a way that they stayed true to thetraditionalinstrument.
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When string instruments were played, the barbiton was thetraditionalinstrument.
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Atraditionalinstrumentused is a makeshift tambourine made of several "tansan" (aluminium bottle caps) strung on some wire.
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Beside his studies and works for concert guitar he continuously followed the idea of getting a more open and less categorized musical experience than usually associated with thetraditionalinstrument.
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Although originally used as atraditionalinstrument(most often in funeral processions), beginning in the 20th century it has also been used in contemporary and classical music.
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Through consideration of both traditional instruments and new technology-driven interfaces, we explore the role that metaphor plays in developing expressive devices.
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Consider the following analogy between the limitations facing a free music composer with a hypothetical situation for a composer of traditional instruments and harmonic traditions.
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There is material here for a good study of traditional instruments, and several texts would be sufficient in themselves.
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