"In most modern instruments, the sound appears, and it's a fixed entity, " Mr. Haas says.

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Listen to the extraordinary path they've found between strict early-instrument style (they play modern instruments) and the big, gushy romantic approach you often hear.

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What Rabbi Luft objects to so vehemently is not just contemporary, western music - rock, rap or pop - but the use of modern instruments and beats in the tunes of orthodox singers like Lipa Schmeltzer.

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According to the musician-turned-CEO, the keyboard is really just the first step for a technology that can be incorporated into all manner of devices, helping to add a level of tangibility that's so often ignored in modern digital instruments.

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Developed at Wagner's request at a time when the technical capabilities of modern brass instruments were being expanded, it enabled him to fill a gap in tone color between the mellow lyricism of the horns and the penetrating brilliance of the trombones.

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Most harpsichordists play modern copies of old instruments.

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North and South's unique selling proposition is that they, extraordinarily for a modern pop band, play instruments.

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The foreign investment banks have two things that most domestic firms lack: access to big foreign institutional customers, which buy many of these financial instruments, and expertise in the techniques of modern finance.

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