(n.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
(3) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
(4) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
(5) Gambaccini has claimed Savile played the tabloids like a Stradivarius violin to prevent details of his private life being revealed.
(6) The other is Coz Fontenot, a burly, bearded 48-year-old, who sits on a fold-out chair, splitting his time between solos on a battered violin and lead vocals.
(7) I arrived back at Baker Street to find Holmes playing a mournful Webern sonata on the violin and for a moment I feared he had succumbed once more to his penchant for cocaine.
(8) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.
(9) Latterly, in unfamiliar concert halls, she would bring him from the dressing room to the side of the stage and he would just be able to see the gap between the first and second violins [to walk to the podium].
(10) This is a violin,” replied Alá, now 10 years old.
(11) Gardner recorded and engineered Cabinet of Curiosities at his Shadow Shoppe Studio in Holland, playing every instrument himself save the drums, having mastered recorder, clarinet, bass, guitar, keyboards and violin as a child.
(12) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
(13) It's the only way I can bear to listen to my violin playing."
(14) When you're waiting for the arrival of the procession in the strikingly silent environs of the local rice fields, it acts as a kind of siren, heralding the approach of The Run with the aid of violins, acoustic guitars and the inevitable accordions.
(15) It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach.
(16) A case is reported of degenerative joint disease in the right mandibular condyle of an 11-year-old boy, apparently due to violin playing.
(17) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
(18) Our current band is called Quattrio , in which I play recorder, Cath plays violin, Rita plays harpsichord and Jo played cello, but had to leave the group last year.
(19) Now, they think it's cool; since this started, it's dead cool to play a violin in West Everton."
(20) At first when he turned up at jazz venues musicians laughed that he had a violin - to them it was a classical instrument.
Violinist
Definition:
(n.) A player on the violin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "); the credits for the orchestra that revealed 22 violinists and five French horn players had been involved in its creation; the old-fashioned advertising campaign with TV advertising and billboards on Sunset Strip.
(2) The violinist and current LSO chairman, Lennox Mackenzie, said: "It's a very sad day for the LSO.
(3) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(4) He was a talented musician and spent happy days as first violinist in the orchestra on the ocean liner the Empress of Britain, believing that the sea air helped him recover from the effects of the gas, though he always suffered bouts of bronchitis.
(5) His father was a violinist who at one time played with the National Scottish Orchestra and later joined the Merchant Navy.
(6) More people are doing it: violinist Mia Matsumiya, for example, has recently launched her Perv Magnet tumblr, which shows some of the thousands of suggestive and abusive messages she has received online over the last decade.
(7) The son of a composer-violinist mother and a father who was an eminent musicologist, Seeger embarked on a lifelong mission to demonstrate that seemingly archaic forms could be absorbed and recycled by younger performers.
(8) Violinists and violists showed significantly poorer thresholds at 3-6 kHz in the left ear than in the right ear, consistent with the left ear's greater exposure from their instruments.
(9) It may help that the president of the ECHR is currently a British judge, Sir Nicolas Bratza , who happens also to be the son of a one-time celebrated Serbian concert violinist.
(10) Arsalan Kamkar, a violinist in the orchestra, said on Monday that only seven or eight members of the orchestra had valid contracts.
(11) The elder Miliband's passions include Arsenal football club, and he regularly watches his violinist wife, Louise Shackelton, performing with the London Symphony Orchestra.
(12) Action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, British violinist Vanessa-Mae and singer Seal were also reportedly paid six-figure sums to attend.
(13) She survives him, along with their son, Tom, a violinist, and two grandchildren, Imogen and Gabriel.
(14) Thus, they are of more value for the relatively mild tremor of the anxious violinist in public performance than in the severe shaking noticed during a panic attack.
(15) Her set includes a white grand piano and four classical violinists dressed in coattails.
(16) A member of the Swiss suicide service, Dignitas, she wants her husband, Omar Puente, a Cuban jazz violinist, to be able to accompany her to Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal, without fear that he could be arrested on his return.
(17) Ewen will perform My Time alongside Lloyd Webber and four violinists on Saturday night.
(18) It featured Pavel Milyutin, a violinist who showed off a 1701 Guarneri instrument that the programme said was worth several million dollars and had been provided by Roldugin’s foundation.
(19) Miliband, whose wife Louise is an American violinist, had indicated that he would continue serving as an MP after losing the Labour leadership to his brother, Ed, in 2010.
(20) He was photographed with the great violinist Yascha Heifetz, and he was on dining terms with Horowitz, Rachmaninov and Schoenberg.