Sentence examples for bass fiddle from inspiring English sources

Junior Raglin's bass fiddle beats dully, like a giant pulse.

He was plucking away at an upright bass fiddle.

The bass fiddle wasn't there for decorous plunking, but for a thick, swampy bottom.

Didier plays banjo, and his pals play mandolin, bass, fiddle, and guitar, while Elise's plaintive voice unspools over the top.

But saxophone and trumpet are mimicked with mouths and hands, as are snare drum hisses and bass fiddle plucking.

The New Yorker, September 16 , 1996P. 80 I took my TV and bass fiddle to the pawnshop.

When he inquired about the matter, the lady said, "Cellos and bass fiddles go half fare".

And Mr. Barthé liked using musical terms in talking about his craft, saying he saw clarinets in his moldings and bass fiddles at the bottom of his arches.

It uses guitars, bass fiddles, violins and drums to sound like a combination of Pink Floyd circa 1969 with Philip Glass arranged for strings.

For the song "Slap That Bass," in "Crazy for You," for instance, the chorines became bass fiddles, and in the show's sensational first-act finale the miners of Deadwood, Nevada, learned rhythm from Broadway showgirls, who pulverized their prospecting pans and were swung around on mining picks.

Hooper and his actors and musicians played us like bass fiddles — and we loved it.