Sentence examples for modest piano from inspiring English sources

They adeptly segue a singer-songwriter's modest piano or acoustic guitar into elaborate studio confections.

The modest piano on which he had started was no longer good enough.

The house isn't entirely as it was when Elvis lived there -- after his death, fans broke in and stripped it; the only original furniture remaining are a grandfather clock, a butcher-block cutting table and a modest piano.

Alongside a fingerpicked guitar or a modest piano, the producer Joe Henry slips in atmospheric touches: parade drums in "Can't Find the Way," a muffled tambourine and a pedal steel guitar in "Before You Leave".

Pitting Louis Ferdinand's pleasant yet modest Piano Quintet in C (Op. 1), for example, against Schumann's towering Piano Quintet in E flat (Op. 44), itself a touchstone of ripe Romanticism, may not be doing the prince a favor.

As majestic images of water and then flames (by the video artist Bill Viola) played above the band, the music built inexorably from a modest piano ostinato to a quiet march, without the album's effects but with its suspense; a simple drumbeat, long absent, entered like a thunderclap.

The album includes "Darlin' Kate," an elegy to Kate McGarrigle of the McGarrigle sisters, who shared vocal harmonies and songwriting with Ms. Harris on "Stumble Into Grace" and many other occasions; its modest banjo and piano backup recall the McGarrigles' parlor songs.

GOTYE & THE ONDIOLINE ORCHESTRA This is obsession: In the synthesizer equivalent of the early-music movement, Gotye tracked down the Ondioline, an electronic instrument from France that was to modern synthesizers what the clavichord was to the piano: modest, subtly expressive, virtually obsolete.

Smith's wares were more modest than the pianos and kit homes sold by Montgomery Ward and Sears — Sneezing Powder ("for PARTIES, POLITICAL MEETINGS, CAR RIDES … it is the GREATEST JOKE OUT") went for just ten cents, and Invisible Ink ("used extensively by secret service agents") for fifteen cents.

John Kamitsuka takes a modest approach to the piano that, depending on what you want from a public piano recital, can be either endearing or frustrating.

Satie was a modest bohemian who played piano in cabarets as a young man and led a strangely secretive life.