The instrument rests snug and gleaming in a leather-lined molding.
Prior to the Carter Family, the autoharp was played with the instrument resting on the lap of the player.
The rebec was held against the chest or chin or, occasionally, with the bottom of the instrument resting on the seated player's left thigh.
The instrument rests on a platform stand supported by three legs covered with carved gesso and painted to match the case.
An accordionist, tuckered out from playing "La Vie en Rose" in front of restaurants all day, sat splayed out on a bench, his instrument resting on a commodious belly.
Viols are characterized by sloping shoulders; deep ribs; thin, flat backs; and, above all, a vertical playing position, with the bottom of the instrument resting on the knee or held between the legs—hence viola da gamba (Italian: "leg viol").
William Wilde Zeitler, a Seattle musician, said it had long been a concern to him, even before Mr. Finkenbeiner disappeared, that so much of the fate of the instrument rested on one man.
It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a "foot" that the instrument rests on when played.
One of them, Vasari writes, is a lutenist painted "with a leg drawn up and his instrument resting upon it, and with the hands touching the strings in the act of running over them, an ear intent on the harmony, the head upraised, and the mouth slightly open, in such a way that whoever beholds him cannot persuade himself that he should not also hear the voice".
The policy instrument rests on cognitive and normative frameworks, meaning that it determines the "ways actors will behave, creates uncertainties on the effects of power relations, favours certain actors allocating them new resources, while excluding others" (Saurugger & Surel, 2006, p. 201).
