sordino

IPA: sˈɔrdˈinoʊ

Examples of "sordino" in Sentences

He was using a _sordino_ and playing it very softly; but I was not mistaken.
_Con sordino_ and _pizzicato_ passages occur as often for the _cello_ as for the violin.
Additionally, many of these articulations may be played altra corda (on an adjoining string) or con sordino (muted).
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.
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. "
This reminiscence probably influenced his fancy also in another direction; for it seemed to him that very faintly, as though played far off, and with the _sordino_, he could hear the air of the _Gagliarda_.
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