String fractional size instruments with strings specifically designed for that instrument.
Using strings designed for other size instruments will not produce a desirable result.
He loped into the shop and emerged carrying a suitcase-size instrument bristling with knobs and switches.
He'd started playing, on a child-size instrument, at the age of four, and although he didn't really enjoy the lessons, he stuck with them, mostly to please his parents.
Haydn composed no fewer than 175 works for the baryton, an archaic bowed cello-size instrument equipped with an additional set of strings for extra resonance, for his longtime patron Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy, who played the instrument.
"It's my goddamn credo!" Back in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, when Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver were muting and minimalizing American literary fiction, Allan Gurganus began revving up his maximalist synthesizer, a Radio City-size instrument capable of thundering oompahs, tinkling grace notes, and a whole one-man band of effects in between.
Mr. Maazel doesn't seem to have been particularly influenced by historically informed Baroque styles, although Glenn Dicterow — the Philharmonic's concertmaster, who played the solo violin part — tuned his violin to replicate the sound of a violino piccolo, a half-size instrument that Bach stipulated should be used in the work.
The body itself, without the neck, may be up to 4.5 feet (1.4 metres) for a full-size instrument, about 3.8 feet (1.2 metres) for a three-quarter size, and only slightly larger than a cello for the small chamber bass, or bassetto.
It's a band of middle-aged men playing ethnic Mongolian music, singing in ancient dialects, with electric guitars, banjo, throat-singing and the morin khuur, a two-stringed, cello-size instrument; they use '70s rock grooves and their own modes and chants.
