Sentence examples for instruments when he was from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Hugh was given his own instrument when he was 14.

He first picked up the instrument when he was five and calls it "a divine power.

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. Brennan, who was a member of the Sioux City Boys Clubs when he was a child, has said that he regrets not having had the opportunity to learn an instrument when he was younger.

Kinkead owned his first instrument when he was around 11, attracted by the "twangy guitar sound" of the Beatles, and had lessons from his art teacher during school lunch breaks.

Born into a poor family in St . Louisin 1920, Terry would often tell the story of building a horn out of junkyard parts — a garden hose attached to a funnel — since his family couldn't afford an instrument when he was a child.

His father was an occasional session drummer in big band jazz ensembles during the 70s; his mother played piano, and started teaching Harrison the instrument when he was seven years old a practice he quickly abandoned, then picked up again when he was 16.

Both of his parents are musicians; his mother is a piano teacher, his dad a guitarist both instruments he adopted when he was still a child.