Then as to the explanation of Italian terms in Purcell's Preface, it is a little singular that much the same sort of information is found prefixed to Matteis's second volume of Violin Pieces.
The robust tones of the modern 'Cello, Viola and Violin can hardly give us a correct impression of these pieces, but by muting them a very good suggestion of "Viall" tone is obtainable.
Surely enough the distant scraping of the violin could be heard, and Betty, seizing Kitty by the hand, tripped up to Clarissa and repeated Peter's request.
Between the upward and the downward curves is a swirling cross line, made up by the shoulder, the arm, and the violin bow.
She looked straight and calm; but, through her hand, he felt that she was vibrating like a struck, tense violin string.
They would have gone on to talk music, had there been time--for Atwater loved music and sang well and played the violin amazingly, though he practiced only about two hours a day, and that not every day.
The violin is in the charge of Mr. Henry Holmes and Mr. Gompertz; the organ of Mr. Walter Parratt.
I find that a mill-girl, the daughter of a brickmaker, and the son of a blacksmith take high places in singing, and the son of a labourer in violin playing.
When you're tired of playing the violin for them, Mother or one of us girls will play the piano.
I've sent down to New York for Chinese lanterns to decorate the grounds with, and Hiram's going to play the violin for us.
Meanwhile he learned to play on the violin, and could tell, it is said, when one violin was an eighth of a tone lower than another.
It was not until he had left and returned again with a pea-rifle and a violin that Frederick recognised the brave private, Bulke.
Arthur Stoss now seated himself on one of the seats, and Bulke, the hero and life saver in red livery, laid a violin on another and proceeded to draw off his master's shoes.
Somebody said you play the violin like Sarasate," said Hans Füllenberg.
When Burton Raymond goes to bed," I had heard my mother say, "he always puts the violin to bed, too.
He has a few books on the end of the shelf by his violin box.
And, once, months afterwards, when Burton Raymond played one evening at our house, he put his violin to bed in a velvet jacket just like the one which Auntie May had made.
And most of all that big house on the hill was a dream, with the lights shining in all its windows, and the rows of Chinese lanterns in the piazza, and a nearby violin letting off cheerful notes of preparation.
M'sieu Fortier had played first violin in the orchestra ever since--well, no one remembered his not playing there.
The glimmer of gas makes a halo about the bowed white head of a little old man putting his violin carefully away in its case with aged, trembling, nervous fingers.
A violin case lay upon it, while near by was a music stand.
Look at those books, at that piano, at what is suggested by the violin case, at the refinement of this room--and then picture what might have been here!
Paul beside her, his violin under his arm, stood looking with eager interest over the room where men and girls were chatting in little groups.
Paul scraped his violin with a preliminary flourish; Mrs. Newton threw a bunch of chords after him, and they cantered into a waltz time the Ridge loved.
She could manage the piano music, she said, and if he would tune his violin for the occasion, they would have a splendid band for the young people.
The words vibrate like the strings of a violin that have been gently touched, and they want Mozart's music as an accompaniment.
Many dilettanti are presumptuous enough to believe themselves further advanced in theoretical knowledge concerning tone than the most experienced violinmaker of the present day.
For musicians and solo players it is very difficult to find out how far the tone of a violin reaches.
Whoever takes an interest in violin making will undoubtedly be pleased to hear more particulars in regard to dilettanti violin makers and their patrons.
Such relics will then, no doubt bring still higher prices from those who wish to possess a violin of that kind.
For George Gemuender, who had then very little knowledge of the English language, which fact increased the difficulty of his position, there remained no other choice but to settle as a violin maker.
It has often occurred to me that violin players of all kinds find fault when the strings are not arranged in the manner to which they are accustomed, and almost every one believes his method to be correct.
He knows no other violin maker who deserves to be compared with Vuillaume in this respect, for he correctly understood the character of the outline and form as well as the interior structure of the different Italian instruments.
At home he play violin all the time; for weddings and for dance.
Some days he take his violin out of his box and make with his fingers on the strings, like this, but never he make the music.
He lingered a little after shaking hands with his host, trying the violin case as if to see that it was secure, and fidgeting in his saddle, and holding back on the start.
He carried a violin case behind his saddle, and a banjo in a green covering slung like a carbine over his shoulder.
John Henry Newman said nothing, but, with a little sigh, laid the violin and the bow carefully on the window-seat.
In instrumental music a violin could be distinguished from a violoncello; a test more delicate than would be supposed by many persons.
Dino played the violin and accompanied Old Beppo in his wanderings over the country for a time, until the old man became restless and unhappy and longed for his native air.
A Selection of Favourite Airs arranged for the Violin by Henry Farmer, complete 1s.
The assistant takes the violin in his hands, looks over it and laughs.
The readers of the following pages will therefore not expect to find every possible ailment to which the violin is liable, mentioned and its appropriate remedy marked out.
She has brought a violin that has been laid aside and forgotten for a long time at a friend's house, for generations in fact, it used to be in repute as a violin by Cremona.
The average--it may almost be called the standard--height of the violin bridge is one three-eighth inches.
Now, first of all, get a cotton cloth sufficiently large when folded once or twice to cover a surface such as the violin back presents.
The technical hints to violin students, which are practical, plainly worded, and from such a pen most valuable.
The parts of the blocks to be left facing the interior of the violin he leaves roughly done to shape and size of those in modern violins, that being found the best from experience since the demise of the old masters of Italy.
James looking again, and coming to the same conclusion, the violin is again taken to the operating table and the knife taken in hand.
He begins by showing the young learner how to choose the best wood for the violin that is to be.
On this, the violinbeing handed to its owner, a close examination is made all over the outside, and through the sound-holes.
Edward was very fond of the violin and of reading books that were not very useful, and as he was very fond of music, he spent a great deal more time in making music and playing the violin than what his wife thought profitable.
The Indians say that at the same time of the year soft strains of the violincan be heard near the spot.
If I know anything about it at all, women will rush forward to the platform to kiss his feet,--not because he plays the violin like Kreisler but because of those magnetic eyes.
But it was when Zalouhou stood up with his violin and played some of the wistful folk songs of his country that she sat with her hands clasped together, leaning forward and moved to a deep emotion.
A few yards farther down a girl with the remains of prettiness was playing the violin at the side of an elderly woman with the smile of professional supplication who held a small tin cup.
The bandmaster, a glossy person with a roving and precocious eye, bent double, violin and all, and signaled congratulations to Chalfont with ears and eyes, eyebrows and mouth.
It served, however, for Mrs. Grey to accompany Pauline while she played on a violin simple tunes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bass; bow; bridge; cello; crowd; fiddle; fingerboard; scroll; string; violin
