Among these were the original instruments used in bygone ages for making flint axes and arrow-heads.

Then they could sell an inverted iceberg of bets on the likelihood of the original instruments defaulting.

ALAMIRE is a group of young musicians from Italy who specialise in the performance of early music on original instruments.

He decided to make a studio recording of the rock opera, and sought to replicate the sound of the original instruments.

Some of the men fashioned original instruments for themselves, one of these, a mouth organ, being a real triumph of ingenuity.