instrumentalist
Noun
Meaning
One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
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Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
For these big ensemble pieces, each instrumentalist or singer recorded their individual part, and then the many videos were edited together into a composite performance.
As a result, these instruments' parts are notated so that the written notes are fingered the same way on each instrument, making it easier for a single instrumentalist to play several instruments in the same family.
Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone once wrote about the instrumentalist: “Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument (guitar) as an electronic sound source.