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violin

noun as in musical instrument

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He learned from Cremonese violin makers that worm damage was rare there, which made him suspect that instrument makers had developed closely-guarded recipes for staving off pests.

Sometimes he’d spend three to four hours a day on hold while practicing violin or browsing job ads on the internet.

I can’t just play them like a piano, I need to play them like a violin, where I’m coaxing, rather than pushing, the sound out of them.

That’s when a mostly unknown 14-year-old violin prodigy sliced through not one, but two E strings during a particularly scorching passage of Leonard Bernstein’s sumptuous and demanding “Serenade” — under the composer’s baton no less.

Violin Concerto, plus his two romances for violin and orchestra, made just after the covid shutdown.

If a stellar-mass black hole is a violin, an IMBH is a double bass.

The Democrats will emphasize the violin stories, and they will exist, too.

One hat in the Press Room is designed from black velvet with a violin perched on top of a skull cap.

On the right, there emerged on Tuesday a universally mocking view that Russia is playing Obama like a cheap violin.

The woman who played an omnipotent American president like her personal violin.

Frulein Fichtner had already departed, but the first violinist played Mendelssohn's famous concerto for violin.

He is on the violin what Liszt is on the piano, and is the only artist worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with him.

As soon as Oertling touched his violin I saw that he was a superior artist, and that immediately inspired me.

The Violin is an instrument which, though small and of trifling original cost, has yet commanded most extraordinary prices.

The two most pleasing, expressive, and powerful single instruments of music are the human voice and the violin.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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