Sentences with phrase «years of violin»

To this day, it's the most useful skill they've ever taught me — far more so than 15 years of violin lessons.

Not exact matches

Guitar blows my mind — having come from violin, where it takes YEARS to produce anything that sounds good, the reality that you can learn a few chords and start playing along with your favorite songs in a matter of days is CRAZY AWESOME.

She made it through a tough year of fourth grade, participated in an overnight trip to the Museum of Science (without me or Jon as a chaperone), and signed up for violin and made it through the concert (despite never practicing #badTigerMom).

After years of my son begging to take the violin, I finally agreed.

He used software to analyse the outlines of 7000 violins — built by the most respected luthiers of the last 400 years — from photographs.

In fact, evidence earlier this year suggested that Stradivari's instruments might not represent the pinnacle of violin craftsmanship.

It should surprise no one that the body of the violin has changed very little over 400 years since the instrument was invented in 16th century Italy, as generations of violinmakers have simply copied the creations of masters such as Antonio Stradivari (1644 — 1737).

To study how violin contours change over time, Dan Chitwood, a plant biologist and avid viola player at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, analyzed photographs of more than 7000 auctioned violins made between the years of 1560 and 2003.

And considering I played violin for 13 years with an hour of practice every day, an hour a week of guitar is not too difficult to find time for.

Getting the Most Out of Coach Training: A Social Experiment A couple of years ago a musician was playing his violin in a Washington DC Metro Station in the winter.

She later spent three years at Stonar School, Atworth, where she learnt to play the violin and was called «Romster», then two years at the City of London School for Girls, with theatre studies as one of her subjects.

In the case of 12 Years a Slave, the subject is played out on human bodies and in objects: a single sheet of precious foolscap writing paper, the juice of berries, a violin.

From Slamdance, we have three documentaries — The Modern Jungle (which analyzes the relationship between filmmaker and subject among dirt - poor peasants in Chiapas), Strad Style (about an unlikely violin maker and his quest to recreate a renowned 18th - century instrument) and Supergirl (a tale of the strongest 12 - year - old girl in the world)-- and three narratives — Dave Made a Maze (a demented fantasy about an out - of - control labyrinth), Future ’38 (a clever sci - fi look forward from 1938 to the year 2018) and Weather House (a hypnotic meditation on the end of the world).

The Red Violin follows the life of a red violin (duh) over three hundred years, and chronicles the stories of the people that it encounters.

After years and years of practice, Mole can play beautiful music on his violin.

128 - year - old violin and Brett Whiteley painting top Sotheby's auction reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars

Tony Conrad performs a solo improvisation on violin in anticipation of ISSUE Project Room's «Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain» anniversary festival.

For over 40 years the Kronos Quartet — David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello)-- has combined a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually reimagine the string quartet experience, changing the way we think about music.

Musicians too took notice: Schwitters imagined a score in which the tones would be produced by «violin, drum, trombone, sewing machine, grandfather clock, steam of water, etc.,» 40 years before John Cage composed pieces using a watering can, a iron pipe, a bottle of wine, a grand piano, five radios and an electric mixer.

While a student at the University of Minnesota was creating a cello composition around the last 130 years of global temperature change, a couple of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory were producing a similar composition, for digital violin and with a much longer score — charting more than 600 years of climate variations and recent warming:

I too have tinnitus, but just in one ear — the left one — from years of playing the violin, a high - pitched instrument.

I've recently taken up the violin (again) after a break of 25 years.

We lived in the Wine Country of California for ten years, but were constantly driving an hour away to Santa Barbara for violin lessons, cultural events, the beach, etc..