Micro Category Of Thing: Musical Instruments

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 195-6):

Musical instruments: piano, cello, flute, drum

General category: 'object (material)'

Particular features: represented as general class with definite article (play the flute, study the cello); alternate between Range and Goal (play the piano / shift the piano); performer construed as derivative in -ist or -er (pianist, flautist, drummer).