Word: violine
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...Keats's Irish terrier, Byrne, failed to come home one night. Chapman found the poet playing the violin, and remarked on his composure. "Keats smiled . . . 'And why should I not fiddle,' he asked, 'while Byrne roams...
There he went to study the language, managed to get himself beaten up and bounced out of a beer hall for uncomplimentary references to Adolf Hitler: "They got me all wrong in that pub." He also met and married 18-year-old Clara Ungerland, blonde, violin-playing daughter of a Cologne basket weaver. She died a month later. O'Nolan returned to Eire, and never mentions...
...played two selections of a more serious nature. Lt. Tirico and Mrs. Anita Clarke Richmond each sang several selections and a duet, Lt. Tirico included a love song called "Les Trois Fils D'Or" by Colonel Fox, accompanied by Mrs. Biggs on the piano and Colonel Fox on the violin...
Five kinds of violins unfamiliar to most concert-goers were heard at the Sanders Theatre Concert on Sunday with the Boston Society playing compositions ranging from 16th Century dances to Handel on a descant violin, a treble violin, a viola da gamba, and a violone. All of these look very similar to modern instruments except the viola da gamba ("Viol of the leg") which is a small 'cello resting on the knee...
...other extreme of modernity was the electric violin employed in Bowles' "The Wind Remains." This device consists of a piece of wood, strung with violin strings, but lacking the sound-box. The vibrations of the strings are electrically amplified through a loudspeaker system, producing a very full tone. Bowles' composition featured several other unusual instruments--Chinese gong, temple blocks, chimes, auto horn, and a milk bottle tapped with a key, but unlike many experiments in exotic instrumentation, contained a lot of sincere writing...