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  • For some, like Mr. Greenhouse, he did major surgery, which could entail an instrument's lying in pieces on the workbench for months or more.

    NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2011

  • For some, like Mr. Greenhouse, he did major surgery, which could entail an instrument's lying in pieces on the workbench for months or more.

    NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2011

  • He did everything except play conventional melody or chord changes: spontaneous riffs and licks, a show of extra "secret" notes above and below the instrument's usual range, primal screams.

    A Last Weekend of Virtuosos and Visionaries Will Friedwald 2011

  • He also seized on the music's dramatic touches, many seemingly inspired by the instrument's possibilities — the opening movement of the C-major Sonata casts the piano's varying registers as operatic characters, in a fluid series of recitative-like textures.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • There's a lot of humidity in his sound, stretching the alto's range as he vaults from a caressing, luxuriously rounded bottom register into a scorching cascade of notes at the instrument's upper limits.

    New Hymns for the Saxophone Church Steve Dollar 2011

  • Well, because the people that name vegetables apparently were lacking in inspiration when they discovered these immature ferns, they're called fiddleheads, due to their resemblance to a certain string instrument's top.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Sarah 2009

  • He expects to be hearing more of the instrument's distinctive sound as its popularity grows across the globe.

    Accordion's Distinctive Sound Attracts Fans 2011

  • He also seized on the music's dramatic touches, many seemingly inspired by the instrument's possibilities — the opening movement of the C-major Sonata casts the piano's varying registers as operatic characters, in a fluid series of recitative-like textures.

    Authentication keys Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • He has a theory about the instrument's newfound popularity.

    Accordion's Distinctive Sound Attracts Fans 2011

  • Well, because the people that name vegetables apparently were lacking in inspiration when they discovered these immature ferns, they're called fiddleheads, due to their resemblance to a certain string instrument's top.

    Greening Up Sarah 2009

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