The droning voice droned on; a soft snoring arose on all sides and supported it like a deep and subdued accompaniment of wind instruments . Some heads were bowed upon folded arms, some lay back with open mouths that issued unconscious music; the flies buzzed and bit, unmolested, the rats swarmed softly out from a hundred holes, and pattered about, and made themselves at home everywhere; and one of them sat up like a squirrel on the king's head and held a bit of cheese in its hands and nibbled it, and dribbled the crumbs in the king's face with naive and impudent irreverence.

The air becomes dissonant with wind instruments , and horrible with clamor of a million throats.

"Well," said Hale, "you had better attend to it and quit playing on wind instruments ." Sanders's banker, too, became uneasy on one occasion and requested him to call at the bank.

Music; a respectable performance (without variations) on stringed and wind instruments , sedately expressive of getting up at eight, shaving close at a quarter past, breakfasting at nine, going to the City at ten, coming home at half-past five, and dining at seven.

Two or three violins and a wind instrument from the Opera band reside within its precincts.

Under one arm he carried a limp and worn-out case, containing some wind instrument ; in the same hand he had a pennyworth of snuff in a little packet of whitey-brown paper, from which he slowly comforted his poor blue old nose with a lengthened- out pinch, as Arthur Clennam looked at him.

They begin with the instruments, arranged in sections on wind instruments , percussion instruments, plucked string instruments, and bowed string instruments.

Coordinated by saxophonist Hayden Chisholm from New Zealand, this year's residency also collaborates with Windcraft Loud organisation and focuses on wind instruments . The objective of the residency is to explore the technical capacity of wind instruments and their potential orchestration patterns and combinations within an ensemble.

"It will be really quite unusual, although there is a tradition in France of organists accompanying wind instruments ."

The band also visited the Mid-East instrument factory, where they witnessed skilled workers making bagpipes, Scottish harps, bodhrans, and all kinds of drums, percussions and wind instruments .