1.   A regular service contract is not expensive when compared to the cost of modern instruments and can provide great peace of mind.

2.   Are ponderous modern instruments the problem?

3.   A pianist using a modern instrument may find the cycle daunting in purely musical terms but has the comfort of using the same instrument from piece to piece.

4.   A little of the piano music works well on big modern instruments, also some of the chamber pieces.

5.   Accompanying the exhibition is a concert series of four centuries of British music performed on period and modern instruments by leading musicians.

6.   But it was all in the sound world of modern instruments, so in a sense I felt that they had reached the end of the road.

7.   But, said Thibodeau, the modern instrument will have been designed and made to be able to support the stronger metal strings that replaced the older gut strings.

8.   He and his colleagues sell mostly to violin dealers, but also to violinists who visit Cremona in search of a fine modern instrument.

9.   His was a suspicious police state, barring modern instruments like the fax or the Internet that might somehow become tools to undermine his government.