They were exceedingly friendly and allowed me to try all the violins they had.
One evening I was wandering through the "Place d'Armes" when some violins in a music shop caught my eye.
Said the latter: "The other violins are pretty wooden boxes with tolerable tunes in their insides.
Half a dozen violins will represent quite a sum of money; and taxicabs are unreliable animals.
He knew that all famous violinists possessed instruments of these schools, and that such violins were practically beyond the reach of many.
The breeze bore the smells of the old-fashioned garden, of violets and cherry blossoms, and a sound of distant violins came on the air playing the new song from the new opera.
I see thatviolins are good, and that an organ is good; and when we introduce the organ, it will not be that fiddles were bad, but that an organ was better.
Old William Dewy, with the violoncello, played the bass; his grandson Dick the treble violin; and Reuben and Michael Mail the tenor and second violins respectively.
The individual characteristics of violins were notorious, so that a violin which sang joyously under the bow was literally priceless.
In particular, the finest of violins lost its splendor of tone if left unplayed, and any violin left in a repair-shop for a month had to be played upon constantly for many days before its living tone came back.
The violins hung unused on the walls of the little cabins that faced the west, for the winter was ended, and the husbands and lovers were off on the water: the summer was their time for toil.
But while no one appreciated the beauty of the harp more than Wagner, or has employed it with finer effect than he, his celestial tone-pictures with high-violins and wood-wind are distinctly more ecstatic than those of other composers.
Moreover Wagner was the first composer to discover that celestial effects of tone colour are produced by the prolonged notes of the combined violins and wood-wind in the highest positions more truly than by the harp.
Amid the shimmering accompaniment of the violins is heard on the horn the =Rhinegold Motive=.
In the course of this, violins whisper the Grail Motive and in dreamy rapture Elsa sings, "I see, in splendour shining, a knight of glorious mien.
Violins and flutes with long-drawn-out, ethereal chords open the Prelude.
It rises higher and higher, the other strings successively joining in the accompaniment, which now flows on in gentle undulations until the motive is heard on the high notes of the wood-wind, while the violins have joined in the accompaniment.
I wonder what instinct impelled you Your dreamy dark eyes to upraise, That for one happy second's communing Met mine that had waited so long-- And the wail of the violins tuning It turned to a jubilant song!
Violins played softly, somewhere out of sight, and everywhere on the night air was the breath of myriads of roses.
The first voice is immediately pursued by another [Music: Allegro energico (2d violins) Piu forte (Violins with higher 8ve.
With a rush of harp and higher strings the Suite begins on ardent wing in exultant song of trumpets (with horns, bassoons and cellos) to quick palpitating violins that in its higher flight is given over to upper reeds and violas.
Into the first phrase of straying violins wanders the personal motive, sadly meditative.
The violins sing here against a stately march of harmonies.
Violins now ring an hostile motive (the former rumbling phrase of basses) from the midst of the plot against the main theme in trumpets.
Thence the horns andviolins break again into the duet in the original key.
Later the first violins (on the G string) sing the main air with the saxophone.
As the hymn winds its further course, violins entwine about the harmonies.
Aside from this closer view that makes clear the tissue of themal discussion, the first phrase is the main melodic motto, that is instantly echoed in violins with piquant harmony.
This commingling of blue scarfs, of ladies, of cuirasses, of violins in the hall, and of trumpets in the square, offered a spectacle which is oftener seen in romances than elsewhere.
Why, many hold Giuseppe's violins As good as thine.
Tis God gives skill, But not without men's hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins Without Antonio.
A tintamarre of voices and a jingle of glasses accompanied the violins and tambours de Basque as the company stood up and sang the song, winding up with a grand burst at the chorus: "'Vivat!
The plaintive wail of the violins rose and fell, from the great hall beyond came the murmur of voices.
The faint sobbing of violins sounded from somewhere, giving the artistic suggestion of being far off, the dominant note of the leader hung high on the air.
Most of the violins made by them are of comparatively small size and flat model, and the tone produced by the fourth or G string is somewhat thin and sharp.
Cremona who manufacturedviolins in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Many of Niccolo Amati's violins are, however, of a larger size and have all the fulness and intensity of tone characteristic of those manufactured by Stradivario and Guarnerio.
Then to this accompaniment two violins began the wedding-march, and the great gate of roses swung wide.
Again the music of harp and violins floated through the rose-scented rooms.
Harp and violins burst into the joyful notes of Mendelssohn's march, and Stuart and Eugenia turned from the altar to pass through the rose gate together.
These guitars and violins are by no means common, though nearly every village possesses one.
These simpler instruments are the product of the Negrito's own brain, but they have probably borrowed the idea of stringed violins and guitars from the Christianized natives.
The two most famous and valuable kinds of old violins take their names from the Italian family of the Amati, who made violins in the sixteenth century, and Antonio Stradivari, who was their pupil.
An Amati and a Stradivarius, often called a "Strad" for short, are the names now given by musicians to the splendid old violins made by these people.
But as the violins and 'cello sobbed out the first movement, a hush fell over the place.
The last sob of the violins trembled into silence.
A mourning thrill shivered up from the violins of the orchestra below; the 'cellos made their plaint, the cymbals rattled, the kettledrums spoke with deep vibrating voices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
