Sentence examples for instrument resting from inspiring English sources

Prior to the Carter Family, the autoharp was played with the instrument resting on the lap of the player.

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.

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".

While his torso reclines with his instrument resting comfortably against him almost like a lover, his fingers coolly strum while one sneakered foot is keeping pace with the fastest beats the drummer can pound out.

The instrument rests snug and gleaming in a leather-lined molding.

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.

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).

While tuning with the pegs, hold the violin in front of you so that you can see the strings and so that the bottom part of the instrument rests on your legs.

A dainty virginal, a sort of miniature harpsichord, flirts with a jumble of provocatively curved wind instruments resting above and below its keyboard.

You need to account for this by getting the strings close and then letting the instrument rest for a second before fine-tuning.