Word: instruments
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...Alexandria, Va., recently wrapped up a yearlong, $6 million mission to help organize and improve the Colombian military. That has made some professional U.S. soldiers itchy. "The employment of private corporations to provide military assistance, specifically the training of other nations' armies to fight wars, should not be an instrument of U.S. foreign policy," an Army colonel wrote in 1998. "The military profession should remain a monopoly of the state...
...once male-dominated musical form offers a powerful means of expression. But the groups, which have doubled in the past five years, are also attracting executives, health professionals and schoolchildren. The most popular drums are the Afro-Cuban conga and the West African djembe--a loud, responsive instrument with the brightest high tones and the deepest, most sensual lows. "Drumming is primal," says Kulu Spiegel, who conducts circles for at-risk youth and corporate honchos out of his World Beat Rhythm Circles in Durango, Colo. "It brings people together in a trusting way they often have never known before...
...SadSadFun. Which is why when the 29-year-old Chulada deejays at Mecca, a velvet-draped club in San Francisco, he only uses Technics SL-1200 direct-drive turntables to spin his favorite vinyls. "When I used the Tech 12s, I feel like I'm playing a real musical instrument," he says, his fingers, with blue-varnished nails, keeping time to the lush, melodic Frisco beat. "With other turntables, I'm just using a record player...
...Years Preschoolers are acting out fantasies and may become interested in playing an instrument...
...catapults me back to childhood. After a good five years of being on my own, I find that I have to plead my case with my parents about even the smallest of details. Who knew each of my parents and I would have a strong opinion about which musical instrument should be playing during the procession? Me, trumpet; Mom, flute; Dad, violin...