Sentence examples for instrument himself from inspiring English sources

Mr. Granz never played an instrument himself, Mr. Schaap said.

In the "poor theatre," the actor uses only his own instrument — himself — to tear down the wall between audience and performer, thereby revealing both, more viscerally, to themselves.

And since the singer performs solo or plays the accompanying instrument himself, he need not keep rigidly to set duration or stress but may introduce grace notes to accommodate hypermetric syllables and lengthen notes for emphasis.

Fuelled by enough booze and LSD to kill a rhino, and playing every instrument himself except drums and saxophone, Smith created the least self-conscious and most unhinged record of his career.

The iconic American composer Frederic Rzewski is renowned for his piano music — he's a virtuoso on the instrument himself — but that won't be the focus of a concert at Miller Theatre (April 19).

On his veranda overlooking the Cumberland River, Hartford, no longer able to play an instrument himself, called out the names of tunes he wanted to hear, and his friends obliged, serenading him for hours.

But the truth is Sly always mixed irony, hope and despair, balancing the sunny dynamics of his (pre-Prince) multi-gendered and racially integrated band with his studio play-every-instrument-himself control freak insularity.

For his 2007 album "Lumière" (Riverboat), he billed himself as the Bob Brozman Orchestra and overdubbed a variety of string and percussion instruments himself.

When he decided that Steven Van Zandt's headscarf was dumb looking, Oswald fired the entire E Street Band and ended up playing all the instruments himself.

He has studied classical music, and in the home studio where he produces his tracks he plays many instruments himself (including banjo).

He signed a solo deal with A&M Records, for which he recorded the CD "Inarticulate Nature Boy," playing all the instruments himself.