FWIW, "Foo Bar played percussion" (singular) seems more natural than
"Foo Bar played percussions" (plural) to me.

Paul

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 21:15 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> Some "generic" items in the instrument tree use the word "instrument",
> some don't. Of those which do, I found 3 where we would IMO improve
> things by removing the word "instrument":
> - Wind instruments -> Winds
> - string instruments -> Strings
> - percussion instruments -> Percussions
> 
> This would improve the resulting sentences: "foo performed
> percussions" seems much better to me than "foo performed percussion
> instruments", or "orchestra foo performed strings" rather than
> "orchestra foo performed string instruments". 
> 
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> Frederic Da Vitoria 
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