Sentence examples for the king of instruments from inspiring English sources
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian is just one place where the king of instruments is being usurped by the prince of electronics.
Re "Pipes Askew, It Still Needs to Sing" (May 11): The king of instruments, as Mozart described the pipe organ, is a remarkable product of art and ingenuity.
A suite entitled "Orgelbuch," with rumbling pedal tones and breathy hoots in the treble, suggests the noise that the king of instruments makes in the middle of the night, while the world slumbers.
There was a time when the pipe organ reigned supreme as the king of instruments in America, when every municipal auditorium boasted a monster organ, when every mansion worthy of its chandeliers had a player-organ, when department stores featured organs able to produce "a perfect Niagara of sound," when touring virtuosos routinely performed before audiences of 10,000.
With its jutting wood pipes, the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ is visually king of the king of instruments.
She was born in Warsaw in 1879, and began playing piano at age 4. In her early years, composers like Chopin, Liszt and Brahms had made the concert grand piano the king of keyboard instruments.
Eugène Ysaÿe, the Belgian violinist and composer who died in 1931, was nicknamed "the king" of his instrument.
If the pipe organ assumed the role of king of instruments during the Baroque, the viola da gamba remained at least a prince, an instrument that held pride of place even in the court of the Sun King.
It is possible, however, that the instrument presented to the king of France by King Edward III of England in 1360 and called échiquier d'Angleterre was a dulce melos.
We're the king of the world!
