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  • adjective Of, pertaining or proper to a violinist

Etymologies

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violinist +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • Well, we all have our own pianistic or violinistic, flautistic, trumpet-ish or tuba-esque Everests!

    Pianistic Everests – what are yours? 2011

  • Hirshhorn, who died of a brain tumour in 1996 aged 50, is something of a legend in violinistic circles and this playing, along with some perceptive comments from Mischa Maisky, helps to prove why.

    Philippe Hirshhorn plays Chausson... Jessica 2007

  • Hirshhorn, who died of a brain tumour in 1996 aged 50, is something of a legend in violinistic circles and this playing, along with some perceptive comments from Mischa Maisky, helps to prove why.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Jessica 2007

  • So many violinists seem to be hung up on purely violinistic questions: wonderful sound, great technique, etc, which on this instrument are so complex that they risk becoming an end in themselves.

    Insomnia Jessica 2005

  • So many violinists seem to be hung up on purely violinistic questions: wonderful sound, great technique, etc, which on this instrument are so complex that they risk becoming an end in themselves.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Jessica 2005

  • Kneisel was one of the first to produce pupils here who played legitimately, according to standard violinistic ideals.

    Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

  • In this way no real violinistic genius, whom poverty might otherwise have kept from ever realizing his dreams, was deprived of his chance in life.

    Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

  • But I knew that there was a certain 'something' which I wished to add to my violinistic make-up, and instinctively felt that he alone could give me what I wanted.

    Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

  • It is because their whole violinistic education has been along the line of solo playing; they have literally been brought up, not to play _with_ others, but to be accompanied _by_ others.

    Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

  • An exponent of what many consider the greatest of all violinistic schools, the Belgian, he studied for four years with

    Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

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