Sentence examples for fiddle called from inspiring English sources

DJ Dolores places children singing, rough-hewn voices and a fiddle called the rabeca in the foreground; under them is an inseparable amalgam of percussion and rhythm programming.

It sets a melody played on a thousand-year-old Chinese fiddle called the Erhu against a hip-hop beat that brings Run D.M.C. to mind.

The classic forró ensemble, in the format that Gonzaga popularized, is a trio of accordion, triangle and a bass drum called a zabumba, sometimes augmented with a type of fiddle called a rabeca and a kind of fife called a pífano.

There was a rack of hanging scrap metal recently selected at a junkyard by Mr. LeBarton and Feist's touring drummer, Paul Taylor; a conch shell Feist would blow for a horn part; an upright piano dotted with contact microphones and a traditional Swedish keyed fiddle called a nyckelharpa.

A one-stringed, bowed fiddle called the torototela, is common in the northeast of the country.

It is home to the four- or five-stringed guitar called the chitarra battente, and a three-stringed, bowed fiddle called the lira, which is also found in similar forms in the music of Crete and Southeastern Europe.

The Mongol horsehair fiddle (often called a "horsehead fiddle" because of the carving of a horse's head that commonly crowns the instrument) accompanies a singer with simultaneous variations on the melody, a technique known as heterophony.

Then there is a raft of unaccompanied items for violin, some of them collected into a suite called "Fiddle Music," which Pound composed, mostly in the 1920's, for the American expatriate violinist Olga Rudge, his devoted companion.

Some years ago, during my first visit to Brownsville, I followed Market Street as it wound under a bridge and came to one of the few remaining open businesses, which is called Fiddle's Confectionery.

The theme music, one of the show's strongest aesthetic choices, is a gorgeously fiddle-heavy song called "Devil's Got Your Boyfriend," by Tracy Bonham.

One reason for that was that he portrayed his colleagues pitilessly in novels and identified them in his acerbic non-fiction, such as The Insider's Guide to Parliament (1995) which examined what he called fiddles, perks, sex scandals and who really governs Britain.