James Gardiner, who was extremely proficient on the violincello, was down for a solo, while Eleanor was to play twice.
"Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School or The Parting of the Ways"
Jessie Graham Flower
Mussard played the violincello, and was passionately found of Italian music.
"The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book VIII."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It seems to me that an abbess who has thirty valets, fifteen footmen, ten cooks, eight grooms, and a mute-who fences, plays the horn, and the violincello-who is a surgeon and a hairdresser-who shoots and makes fireworks-cannot be very dull.
"The Regent's Daughter"
Alexandre Dumas (Pere)