The White House social secretary, Letitia Baldrige, Mrs. Kennedy tells Mr. Schlesinger, loved to pick up the phone and say things like "Send all the White House china on the plane to Costa Rica" or tell them they had to fly string beans in to a state dinner.
A variant of the string method called on-the-fly string method has also been proposed and applied successfully.
The band members are Ham Hornhead on vocals and motor guitar, Wiggy on single string flying tearcaster, Swamp on drums, and mono-handed Fifi Farfisa on keys.
Although this way is longer, it's much safer as you won't have pieces of guitar string flying everywhere and all over your room.
Floaters are spots in your vision like black or gray specks, strings, flying bugs, or cobwebs.
Begging was the career his father had set him on, rather than sending him to school; with his "little silver hands" flying over the strings, he fed the whole family.
It was "Abraham's New Gift," by the bassist Jasper Hoiby, who set up its slanted rhythmic scaffolding with a quick, complicated ostinato, his long fingers flying across the strings.
In front of the long, narrow, wooden-floor room, just to the right of the pulpit, Robert Randolph sat alongside a large purple pedal steel guitar, fingers flying across the strings to tease out lead lines that sounded like John Lee Hooker and rickety rhythms reminiscent of Bo Diddley, two musicians whom he claims never to have heard.
The other pieces are "Dreams of Flying," a string quartet by Victoria Bond, and "La Priere du Loup" (Wolfman Prayer), a music theater piece by Eric Salzman featuring the performance artist and singer Rinde Eckert.
