Sentence examples for playing upright from inspiring English sources

Ms. Josephson joined an all-girls bluegrass band, Buffalo Gals, playing upright base and singing.

Ms. Josephson joined an all-girls bluegrass band, Buffalo Gals, playing upright bass and singing.

Jim Creeggan, playing upright bass, interpolated a theme from Bizet's "Carmen" and the nursery rhyme "Apples and Bananas".

At this point Bruce was still playing upright bass, and a jazz show was the most appropriate home for this music.

Tucker made his living playing upright bass — an instrument he'd named Bertha and claimed was 240 years old — in all sorts of settings from jazz festivals to wedding receptions, from nightclub gigs to bar mitzvahs.

I've toyed with the idea of using AmpliTube as the sole source for playing upright bass at small gigs, but the inability to truly "bypass" was always a deal-breaker for me.

He also plays upright bass.

But I play upright a little bit, and that's bad for leverage".

The players are fearsome: two sons of Mr. McCoury — Ronnie, who plays mandolin, and Rob, who plays banjo — Jason Carter, who plays fiddle, and Alan Bartram, who plays upright bass.

On all three Mr. Steinberg played upright bass (for much of the rest of the show he played an electric bass), creating a more subdued mood.

Egyptian lyres included (from c. 2000 bc) an asymmetrical, plectrum-plucked instrument held horizontally and (from c. 1000 bc) a smaller symmetrical lyre played upright.