National Instrument

The term national instrument can refer to:

  • National Instruments, an American corporation
  • The national instrument of a nation, referring to a musical instrument of particular cultural and social importance

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or instrument:

    Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man’s world, so it talks a man’s language.
    Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)