Sentence examples for instruments when he from inspiring English sources

Besides the piano, Mr. Nygaard studied the clarinet, piccolo and cello, and was able to make his way around most of the other orchestral instruments when he enrolled at Louisiana State University on a clarinet scholarship in 1948.

Although Western audiences were often mystified by the odd sounds and shapes of the instruments when he began touring in Europe and the United States in the early 1950s, Mr. Shankar and his ensemble gradually built a large following for Indian music.

Kelley's own schoolkid collections of bubblegum cards hang alongside college flyers and business cards, a vitrine of squeeze-toys (the last collected by Kelley as unlikely musical instruments, when he was in a cult 1970s proto-punk band called Destroy All Monsters), and another of bent wires, found in a parking lot, which thieves use to unlock car doors.

And, in The Legacy, the family home is almost a character – it's a boho-hippie art commune, where Gro's father, Thomas (the excellent Jesper Christensen), lives in a caravan and creates his own unusual musical instruments when he's not stoned.

Though his parents were not musicians, they nurtured his natural inclination towards music as he began playing instruments when he was four or five years old.

Archuleta also took advantage of the decision to allow contestants to play musical instruments when he accompanied himself on piano for his performances of "Crazy", "Another Day in Paradise", and "Angels".

(He bought his first instrument when he left the Army with his mustering-out pay).

Iggy Pop doesn't play an instrument when he performs on stage.

Mr. Turner said that he picked up the instrument when he was 16, after he saw a neighbor named R. E. Williams playing one.

Mr. Brozman began playing guitar at the age of 6 and found his chosen instrument when he bought his first National guitar at 13.

"And then he would do that thing with his instrument when he would open up a can of gasoline and burn his guitar.