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accordionist

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as in pianist

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Recent Examples of accordionist The accordionist stomped sideways under the stage lights, sweat running down his temples, looking like Angus Young sans schoolboy shorts. — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026 Like most of her bandmates, Madden grew up in a musical family; her dad was an accordionist who played hundreds of functions in the Northeast. — Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026 It’s all served well by the imaginative music of (mostly) Michael Koerner, delivered onstage by the duo of accordionist Victor Zupanc and guitarist Joe Cruz. — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026 No, the accordionist is my art-historian partner, Sarah Jane Checkland, who has been playing for 25 years. — Jonathan Margolis, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026

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Noun

Gosling won a Golden Globe for his role as Seb, an aspiring pianist who falls in love with Mia (Stone), an actress who can’t catch a break.

— Matt Minton, Variety, 21 July 2026
For a nightcap, head to Elephant Bar, or opt for the lobby’s calming atmosphere, where a suited & booted pianist takes requests.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2026

Definition of pianist

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Sándor Fehér was a 38-year-old violinist from Hungary who was working as an entertainer aboard the Costa Concordia.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
For this, Golub assembled a band including trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, who has made his own deep dives into microtonal music, inspired a great deal by Iraqi maqams, and five-string violinist Layale Chaker.

— Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 July 2026

Definition of violinist

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Elle’s music supervisor hired an instructor to walk him through how to convincingly play the chords on set, which were later overdubbed by a professional guitarist.

— Devon Ivie, Vulture, 17 July 2026
Heaven worked as a guitarist for Samia, Del Water Gap and Gus Dapperton before releasing their first EP in 2022.

— Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 July 2026

Definition of guitarist

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His father, saxophonist, flutist and vocalist Scott Mayo, performed with Earth, Wind & Fire and Sérgio Mendes.

— Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
The London saxophonist and his ensemble fuse jazz with diverse strains of global trance music—Moroccan gnawa, Berlin kosmische—into a hypnotic, utopian expression of spiritual union.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026

Definition of saxophonist

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And, of course, Buffett himself arrives, accompanied by his longtime percussionist Eric Darken on the marimba and a bar full of cheering friends, to reprise the chorus in a voice that is more talky and less twangy than Jackson’s.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
But Offering invites new collaborators into their process, like Haitian-Guyanese producer Michaël Brun and Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez.

— Stefanie Fernández, Pitchfork, 3 July 2026

Definition of percussionist

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For composer and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Christopher Crenshaw, that collective spirit is the music’s genius.

— Abraham Swee, USA Today, 29 June 2026
The core group now augments itself with the bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and, for the first time in the band’s history, vocals.

— Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026

Definition of trombonist

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With Pa being a fiddler, music played a significant role in Wilder’s work and Sonnenshine was determined to reflect that; all the songs played in Season 1 are from the books.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
That’s what will be going on July 9 in Walnut Creek when the incredibly talented Bay Area fiddler Tom Rigney comes to the Lesher Center to kick off the venue’s Summer Sounds free concert series.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 9 July 2026

Definition of fiddler

Noun

Other members of Dylan’s current touring band are guitarist Joel Paterson, bassist Tony Garnier and drummer Anton Fig.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
Singer Jon Anderson, guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, and drummer Alan White all spent the downtime cutting solo albums.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2026

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