He wanted to make an instrument that could play a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

When Morse finally completed his telegraphic instrument, he went before Congress to show that it worked.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

I lay awake nights, wishing to find the perfect lens an instrument of great magnifying power.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

I lay awake nights,wishing to find the perfect lens - an instrument of great magnifying power.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

A navigator also had to know how to use a complex instrument called a sextant.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

He learned to play the harmonica by watching an old man play the instrument.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

But the instrument became difficult to play after she lost her baby teeth.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

This powerful scientific instrument will be available to scientists all over the world.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

In the seventeen hundreds it became similar to the instrument we know today.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

The drummer threw down his instrument and brought Charlie to a halt.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

The first musical instrument Woody learned to play was the harmonica.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Bela Fleck brings a modern sound to this traditional string instrument.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

He learned to play the instrument and began writing songs.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

"This is an evaluation instrument that is finally able to capture who is highly effective and who is ineffective and who could be doing better and could use some assistance.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

"And not many days goes by when I don't hear music, or see music,or feel music, or some way or another have some connection to an instrument."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Willie,now 74, who wrote most of the tunes on Joined At The Hip, returns to his first instrument, the harmonica, while Willie shines on vocals and piano.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20