Sentence examples for taking up instruments from inspiring English sources

Some took part in whole-family jam sessions with brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts taking up instruments.

As for the Met's current "Puritani," rather than taking up instruments, the singers should concentrate on the rudiments of bel canto singing, like staying in tune.

The show, at the Flea Theater, takes Shakespeare's text, truncates it substantially and inserts songs along the way, with the actors taking up instruments — mandolin, clarinet, saxophone and many more — to supplement a core band.

Some of the players took up instruments, forming an ensemble that included oud (an Arabic lute), bouzouki, clarinet, accordion and percussion.

Why? Arguably punk was most important in its influence, encouraging kids in the suburbs to take up instruments, with little or no musical training.

He makes the Eagles a five-piece country band by playing mandolin, allows Leadon to take up instruments heretofore confined to studio overdubs and, by playing occasional rhythm guitar, lets Frey pound the keyboards.

Taking up an instrument was mandatory.

Taking up a musical instrument, even late in life, is good for the brain, and "can slow, stop, or even reverse, age or illness-related decline in mental functions".

Attracted to punk rock's disregard for virtuosity, artists waiting for their big break in galleries began taking up musical instruments in the 1970s.

These factors are encoded not just in the region's history, with African, Caribbean, European and Acadian cultures colliding, but also in its present, with schoolchildren weaned on hip-hop taking up brass instruments in hopes of playing street parades.

And as in chess, Gisela Gresser developed late, taking up the instrument in her 40s.