string player
Americannoun
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Banjo and string player Matt Worley was “Saving Grace’s” musical instigator, approaching Plant at a pub.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
For some years, Frey has been fascinated by a technique he calls “halftone harmonics,” in which a string player uses special fingering to coax two neighboring pitches from a single string, with whispery overtones attached.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019
Frey recruited Poco’s bassist, Randy Meisner, and Leadon, a masterful string player who had backed Gram Parsons in the Flying Burrito Brothers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2016
Conrad’s “drone strings” were played by a trio of seasoned collaborators and an additional string player stepped in for Conrad himself: Laurie Anderson.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2016
Normally a string player holds a string down very tightly.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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