Sentence examples for violin from inspiring English sources
The word 'violin' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to a stringed instrument with four strings, played with a bow, and held between the shoulder and chin. Example: He picked up his violin and began to play a beautiful melody, filling the room with enchanting music.
noun
A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.
Other new acquaintances are shown solving Rubik's cubes together, and duetting on the violin.
I'm not playing a violin for the four founders; but Twitter is hardly an advertisement for the rewards of starting up your own company.
Charles Peace, a cat burglar hanged in 1879, is represented not just by his ingenious folding stepladder but by the violin with which he was apparently an excellent performer.
Now where did I put the world's smallest violin?
The daughter of musicians, Grout grew up playing the violin and piano, and only became interested in Arab music in 2010, while at university in Canada.
The musicians, on drums, a flute and a single-string violin, continued playing quietly long after we had gone to bed.
The innovation of 3D printing may one day revolutionise manufacturing, but I doubt that Antonio Stradivari will be turning in his grave, or whether modern violin-makers will fear that their craft will become obsolete overnight.For more than 300 years no one has been able to ascertain exactly what the secret was of the Cremona masters.
Unfortunately, however, for those experts who think their judgment unclouded by the Cremonese instruments' reputations, Claudia Fritz of the University of Paris VI and Joseph Curtin, an American violin-maker, have just applied the rigorous standards of science to the matter.
Mr Zygmuntowicz, who has also made instruments for Joshua Bell and the Emerson String Quartet, is rated as one of the best violin-makers alive.
They can learn their trade at renowned violin-making schools in a number of countries.
Many violin-makers make their own and guard the recipe jealously.There were many earlier string instruments but they sounded quite different.
