organ-grinder

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Noun
  • As onlookers began to notice, more musicians suddenly joined in — including a pianist and extra singers — from other open balconies above the street.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Producer Thom Bell, bassist Carol Kaye, and pianist Nicky Hopkins will also each receive their own Musical Excellence Award.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • An hour later, for its first concert since the fires, parishioners sat in awe as Grammy Award winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers weaved her bow across her violin, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach echoing through the church.
    Camelia Heins, Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • It will be played by flutist Mark Teplitsky, violinist Eric Gratz, cellist Julian Schwartz and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Dead drummer Mickey Hart said at one point legendary concert promoter Bill Graham vented to him about the lack of catchy songs.
    Adam Levine, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The band's other drummer, Mickey Hart, practically an original member since joining in 1967, is also alive at 82.
    CBS News, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Waiting in the greenroom was Robert Alan York, a veteran organist who studied classical repertory and improvisation in Paris and also possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the American songbook.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Anna von Hausswolff, Iconoclasts Some of the hardest rock and roll of the year came from … a pipe organist?
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The drummer and saxophonist had left Kabul years earlier but stayed in touch with their Afghan students through the app, occasionally helping with visa applications.
    Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Klaus Doldinger, the German saxophonist and composer who created the soundtracks to Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story, had died.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The remaining band members include guitarist Patrick Sauber, lead vocalist Trisha Gagnon, five-string banjo player Nick Hornbuckle and fiddler Greg Spatz.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • In denying Bressington’s application, Judge William Alsup noted that the guitarist’s lawyers hedged on filing a defamation lawsuit.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • It will be played by flutist Mark Teplitsky, violinist Eric Gratz, cellist Julian Schwartz and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • And guitarist, saxophonist and flutist Joe Harrison, a Canyon Crest Academy alum, toured this year as the bassist in Black Keys.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • On March 8, Bello’s teenage son Nigel, a trombonist, performs with his Nigel Bello Band.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2026
  • But the New Orleans trombonist didn’t love the results.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 6 Dec. 2025
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“Organ-grinder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/organ-grinder. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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