Sentence examples for played the string from inspiring English sources

I played the string bass.

Thus welcomed, the ensemble played the String Quartet No. 2 by Gabriel Prokofiev, a composer, producer, Nonclassical founder and, incidentally, the grandson of Sergei Prokofiev.

Shankar began to perform publicly on sitar in December 1939 and his debut performance was a jugalbandi (duet) with Ali Akbar Khan, who played the string instrument sarod.

For this he sat beside the lutenist Paul O'Dette and played the strings of his violin like those of a guitar.

He played the strings with his fingertips rather than with his fingernails, which created a gentler sound.

(The Knights, a New York chamber orchestra, will play the string arrangements).

Among the fascinations is playing the string detective, working out which musician is playing which sound.

The quartet also joined the opening group, Superhuman Happiness, playing the string parts in the film score by the group's leaders for the AIDS documentary "How to Survive a Plague".

The next evening an ensemble of students and faculty members from the Curtis Institute of Music Barberr's alma mater) will play the string quartet at the Allen Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall.

If you see a 0, that simply means play the string without pressing a fret.

By playing the strings, the soloist (here Mr. Trapani) activates signals that emit transformed guitar sounds: repeated chords, arpeggios, wah-wah whines.