Sentence examples for playing string from inspiring English sources

Melodies are produced by touching the harmonic nodes of the playing string with the thumb.

Paul Weimer was an amateur violinist and enjoyed playing string quartets with friends on a regular basis.

But mostly Cuihu is for old people, and as I walked through, I followed the high, reedy sound of Chinese opera to find clusters of them gathered under the willows, playing string instruments with fingers stiffened by age.

It included Sandra Wong playing string music from around the world; and a Boston nouveau-bluegrass band, Crooked Still, pulled along by Aoife O'Donovan's Alison Krauss-like singing and the virtuosic cellist Tristan Clarridge, with implicit funk and conservatory training everywhere.

Nissel embraced the idea whole-heartedly, becoming, as he put it in an interview for the European String Teachers' magazine, "really enamoured with the task of teaching", and helping him to overcome the void of not playing string quartets any more.

They started as a summer school, with 30 children playing string instruments five mornings a week.

Playing string-band music and fiddle tunes aggressively, he brought a form into being, something like the way musicians in New Orleans transformed horn and keyboard music.

Musicians such as Lonnie Johnson and Brownie McGhee, who had grown up playing string-band music, quickly realized that if they wanted to make any money, they had better play blues.

The album features just as many acoustic musicians playing strings, woodwind, brass, keyboards and percussion.

He gave his band a real quirky name and started playing strung out psychedelic guitar riffs with a computer as accompaniment.

Not every child will play string quartets.