### person | entertainer | performer | musician:

Famous musician
* Many famous musicians have a large repertoire of pieces that they can play from memory.
+ Performing music from memory: Musical performance techniques
  * People who learn musical instruments should try to memorize some of their pieces. Many famous musicians have a large repertoire of pieces that they can play from memory.
+ Wigmore Hall: Concert halls in London
  * Today the Wigmore Hall seats 540 people. Many concerts are broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Famous musicians perform there, as well as young musicians who are just starting their career.

Flutist
* Most flutists are saxophonists who play it as a second instrument, known as doublers.
* are musicians.

Folk musician
* Many folk musicians learn to play the cuatro by reading tablature rather than musical notation.
* can be professional, semi-professional and total amateurs.

Guitar player
* Some guitar players use a slide to emulate the sound of a person cryin'
  - their fourth finger instead
* are magazines.

### person | entertainer | performer | musician:

Guitarist
* Many guitarists regard amplifiers as instruments unto themselves.
* Most guitarists learn to play by ear.
* are competitive musicians
  - shredders
* frequently use unison pitches to tune the guitar.
* often have intimate relationships with their instruments.
+ Arpeggio: Musical terminology
  * Learning many musical instruments include playing scales and arpeggios. They are often played as part of music examinations, especially for piano and the string instruments. This is because these skills are useful for playing a lot of music. Guitarists sometimes play arpeggios instead of strumming, and banjo players do it a lot.

### person | entertainer | performer | musician:

Harper
* are also the conveyers of news as they moved throughout the land.
* story-teller, a performer.
+ Stephen Harper: 1959 births :: Living people :: Current national leaders :: People from Toronto
  * Harper is a conservative and supports cutting government spending and taxes. As prime minister, he has cut the goods and services tax and approved a budget that would cut funding to several government programs. He has also shown support for the military and a bigger Canadian military presence in the northern part of Canada.

### person | entertainer | performer | musician:

Harpist
* are generally ungrounded people
* control volume by how hard they pluck the strings, which can be hard on a harpist's hands.
* frequently have opportunities to play in churches.
* spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune.
+ Glissando: Musical performance techniques :: Musical terminology
  * With instruments such as the piano, xylophone or harp a glissando is a quick slide in which we hear one note after another because the pitches between the notes cannot be played. At the end of the piano piece called 'Ondine' from 'Gaspard de la Nuit' by Maurice Ravel both these types of glissando can be heard. The pianist has to play a glissando with tips of the fingers or the finger nails. It can be quite painful to practise them a lot. Harpists are very fond of playing glissandi. By changing the position of the harp pedals a harpist can change the scale which will sound when the glissando is played.

Instrumental musician
* are a special risk group for repetitive motion injuries.
* play a musical instrument in an orchestra, band, rock group, or jazz combo
  - orchestra, band, rock group, or jazz group
  - an instrument in an orchestra or band