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sordino

NOUN
  1. a mute for a violin

How To Use sordino In A Sentence

  • Musicians played in a park, using cardboard boxes as sordinos and adapting their music to sounds in the surroundings.
  • An adagio for the symphony - earth, worms and misery, fortissimo and sordinos [mutes], lots of sordinos.
  • It's unbelievable how many different ‘sordinos’ they have in their equipment to play the con-sordino-beginning of the Francaix Trio.
  • While you were playing the _Gagliarda_ to-night, I could almost have imagined that someone in an adjacent room was playing the same air with a _sordino_, so distinct was the echo. The Lost Stradivarius
  • As they reached his ears through the heavy stone roof they were more harmonious, all harshness was softened; the _sordino_ of the vaulting produced the effect of a muffled peal. The Nebuly Coat
  • He was using a _sordino_ and playing it very softly; but I was not mistaken. The Lost Stradivarius
  • The other instruments have so much more content (more instruments, a large number of sordinos) in the Professional Edition, but the tuba is almost always used as a solo instrument and the mute is very uncommon.
  • The _mute_ (or _sordino_) is a small clamp made of metal, wood, or ivory, which when clipped to the top of the bridge causes the vibrations to be transmitted less freely to the body of the violin, giving rise to Music Notation and Terminology
  • A friend and I decided to make a ‘sword fight’ using trumpet mutes, which are also known as sordinos or sords for short.
  • Additionally, many of these articulations may be played altra corda (on an adjoining string) or con sordino (muted). KVR News: Top Stories
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