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...Kerry Keane, Christie’s specialist consultant for musical instruments, refutes the idea that these guitars will become museum pieces rather than continue their musical lives....
...He sees potential for further growth in the region, predicting that by 2030, the Asia-Pacific will be the world’s largest market for musical instruments....
...I’ve got my favourites; I’ve a Fender acoustic that doesn’t get played that much because I’ve got a really nice Gibson, a parlour guitar....
...He tried to make his guitar sing like a human voice, a quixotic campaign that epitomised his peerless command of the instrument’s timbre....
...The Kodo’s heartbeat is, fundamentally, ticking in musical time. Leo Lewis is the FT’s Asia business editor...
...One item Rodgers could not bring himself to put on the auction block was his original, one-of-a-kind 1959 Fender Stratocaster which he bought in a pawnshop almost 50 years ago and which he has played on...
...We made musical instruments from kitchen tools.” The Martyr’s Monument in Baghdad, opened in 1983 in honour of victims of the Iran-Iraq war....
...The idea of making a musical instrument talk goes back deep into human history, from so-called “talking drums” in Africa, by which disparate communities would communicate, to the trumpet blasts that accompany...
...When every laptop is a viable studio, the cost of live instruments and amplifiers must baffle even a gilded teenager....
...You see talented people playing their musical instruments, jump-rope or acrobatics teams showing off tricks, or acting troupes rehearsing. It’s everybody’s stage....
...Speaking with Anderson is delightfully strange because her voice is one of her musical instruments, precise and unhurried, at times detached....
...Perhaps the greatest sign of a comeback is the enthusiasm with which Digital World Acquisition Corporation was met....
...“The fact the CMA has imposed large fines on major musical instrument firms Casio and Fender in a matter of months should be a lesson to this industry and any other company considering illegal behaviour....
...It was a situation replicated at other British musical instrument retailers as consumers rushed online to buy pianos, guitars, saxophones and even percussion instruments to make a louder noise when cheering...
...The musical instrument sector turns over an estimated £440m annually in the UK according to the CMA and online sales of musical instruments have grown to about 40 per cent of the market....
...However, GarageBand lacks the physicality of a real instrument....
...musical traditions....
...“Throw money at your enemies to weaken them and hide in a musical instrument case to make you invisible.”...
...With a third of the US market, Gibson is second only to Fender Musical Instruments, whose chief executive this week pointedly observed that the maker of the Stratocaster was enjoying “steady growth”....
...Instead of Fenders and Gibsons, the musicians are clutching instruments with gut strings, and are about to tackle a quartet from the 1830s by Fanny Mendelssohn....
...It is like a beautiful musical instrument, with a concertina of leather, and a hand-crafted rose gold bridge and clasp....
...Musical instrument maker Yamaha Corporation slid on Thursday after the company reported a fall in first-half earnings....
...In his case, that involves adjusting the settings on an MRI machine to get the best possible scan from any particular situation — something he compares with coaxing the best sound from a musical instrument...
...Musical instrument maker Yamaha Corporation slid 11 per cent on lower first-half earnings. Honda shares jumped more than 5 per cent on an improved profit forecast....
...Musical instrument maker Yamaha Corporation slid 8 per cent on lower first-half earnings, while Honda shares jumped more than 5 per cent on an improved profit forecast....
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