At the representation of Arsinoe and the other earliest operas, he played the harpsichord and Haym the violoncello.

She learned her lessons rapidly; and soon could accompany her father's violoncello on the piano.

Opposite me was another young man, with the curly hair and long, thin face of a Greek faun nursing a violoncello, and listening with a dream in his eyes.

Opposite their door, on the other side of the well staircase, dwelt one Monsieur Cliquot, an elderly employé in some public office; next to him, Signor Milanesi, an Italian refugee who played in the orchestra at the Variétés every night, was given to practising the violoncello by day, and wore as much hair about his face as a Skye-terrier.