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

As you might have guessed from his name, Harpo Marx was famous for playing the musical instrument called the harp.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Then she discovered a set of old drums in her family's home and became interested in playing that instrument.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

On an acoustic guitar, the strings vibrate and the hollow part of the instrument, or the sound box,also vibrates.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

And we will report on the recovery of what archeologists are calling the oldest musical instrument ever found.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

It was a very strange- looking instrument, so he hid it inside the body of a traditional 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.2011.06.18

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

VOA: special.2009.07.18

From a distance the many wires look like the stringed musical instrument called the harp.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

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

VOA: special.2009.12.23