Violins

Word VIOLINS
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Definitions and meanings of "Violins"

What do we mean by violins?

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.

A violinist.

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The word "violins" in example sentences

In a recently released study aimed at demystifying the Stradivari violin, researchers in France and Germany subjected five of his violins from a museum collection to a series of spectroscopic and microscopic tests. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The orchestra did sterling work all evening, most notably in the beauty the violins were able to sustain in the febrile writing at the upper end of their range, and in the huge, burnished sound the lower brass unleashed in their solos. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)

But the melody called to him, louder now and more insistent, and mingled with the throb of the violins was the sound of voices and laughter. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

One of his violins was the favorite instrument of the French virtuoso Delphine Jean Alard (1815-1888), long violin professor at the Paris Conservatoire. ❋ Aubertine Woodward Moore (1885)

Federici wrote two oratorios, "Santa Cristina," and "Santa Caterina de Sienna," in both of which "interstitial" accompaniment is used for the first time; that is, the violins, instead of accompanying the voice, repeat portions of the melody in short symphonies. ❋ Unknown (1876)

The party found its seats during several beautiful lime-light effects, and that remarkable fly-buzzing of violins which is pronounced so helpful in times of peril and sentiment. ❋ Owen Wister (1899)

Page 172 soon manufactured their own, such as violins, guitars and banjoes, and which answered our purposes quite as well as if they had been imported at fabulous prices. ❋ Unknown (1893)

This fact convinced me many years ago that spiders are attracted by the sound of musical instruments, such as violins, concertinas, guitars, &c., simply because the sound produces the same effect on them as the shrill buzzing of a captive fly. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Animal glue made from boiling animal connective tissue and bones is apparently the best adhesive for fixing musical instruments made from wood such as violins and pianos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By default the Canvas includes 1,125 sounds, such as violins and shakuhachis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Antonio Stradivari (ca. 1644-1737) from Cremona, Italy was a crafter of stringed instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars and harps and the most prominent member of a renowned family of Italian instrument-makers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Solo Strings-Cello Bowed Solo stringed instruments, such as violins and cellos, that are played with a bow can be created in much the same way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Svanangen is a multi-instrumentalist and uses those talents to their fullest across this album, with particular emphasis on synths and computer-generated beats that interweave seamlessly with a wide variety of instruments such as violins, pianos, harmonicas, horns, xylophones, whistling, and of course your everyday garden collection of guitars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marmalade - màrmalâde marmite marquee ❋ Unknown (2009)

AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marque type ❋ Unknown (2008)

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