original instrument

collocation in English

meaningsoforiginalandinstrument

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original
adjective
uk
/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us
/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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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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(Definition oforiginalandinstrumentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The universality of any design incorporating a representation of theoriginalinstrumentplus supplementary controllers will never be guaranteed.
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Performers are most comfortable with their own instrument, not a copy, and maximal performance flexibility and expressivity certainly are conveyed through anoriginalinstrument.
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In so doing, the sonorities that are given birth maintain a somewhat familiar relationship with theoriginalinstrument.
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However, it fails to take into account recent reports which indicate the need to improve regulations 24 and 25 of theoriginalinstrument.
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If we may not know the cost of the instrument may we know how much more it costs than theoriginalinstrument?
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But they have got to make it look different, and in making it look different they have produced something which is not as good as theoriginalinstrument.
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Demby is a performing and recording artist, vocalist,originalinstrumentdesigner, painter, sculptor, and multi-media producer.
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Theoriginalinstrumentconsisted of approximately 8,400 pipes.
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Theoriginalinstrument, and its successor that was introduced in 1976, employed a horizontal goniometer with data output provided by an internal strip chart recorder.
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Theoriginalinstrumentwas the mandore, which evolved in the fourteenth century from the lute.
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Both guitars are based on extensive measurements of theoriginalinstrument, each featuring varying degrees of wear.
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He also worked and trained with some of the technicians he had met as a rock performer, with an eye towardsoriginalinstrumentcreations.
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It is unknown if the lights were a modification to theoriginalinstrument, or in fact a new instrument altogether.
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Though he established his reputation primarily as a tenor saxophonist, he has increasingly turned to other instruments, notably the piano (which was, in fact, hisoriginalinstrument) and alto saxophone.
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It has been suggested that the name "schundaphone" would have been more accurate, but trogat was used because of the nationalistic image that theoriginalinstrumenthad.
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Harris is fluent in reading and writing music and switched from heroriginalinstrument, the oboe, to the dulcimer in the mid-1970s.
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It was entirely by accident that theoriginalinstrumentoperated on frequencies suitable to detection of the 10.7 cm signal, and it had never been intended for production use.
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Here is possibly the most convincing evidence in the whole book that a study of the original instruments and performing conditions can transform our view of a work.
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Must we demand original instruments and original performance practice on these instruments?
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At least 50 original instruments survive in collections around the world.
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