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Nevertheless, the most enduringly famous image of Kiki is Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres, a photograph of her naked from behind, her signature bobbed hair hidden in a turban, her remarkable face almost hidden, and her voluptuous body transformed into a musical instrument by the addition of the "f-holes" of a violin.

Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review 2011

Further design elements include a Piezo pickup under the bridge for optional amp-age, geared tuners, a hand-carved black walnut neck, and hand-cut f-holes, though unless you're a prude, what other kind are there?

Thrillist: Country Boy Guitars: Smoking And Music Together At Last Thrillist 2011

Pullum replied sensibly that, while “both (1) and (2) are simply saying that he was engaged in violin-playing when the visitor arrived,” there is nevertheless a discernible difference between them:If you view violin as a count noun denoting individual objects 4-stringed objects with f-holes, then if he was playing a particular one of those objects, sentence (1) is appropriate.

Archive 2010-01-01 2010

Pullum replied sensibly that, while “both (1) and (2) are simply saying that he was engaged in violin-playing when the visitor arrived,” there is nevertheless a discernible difference between them:If you view violin as a count noun denoting individual objects 4-stringed objects with f-holes, then if he was playing a particular one of those objects, sentence (1) is appropriate.

Doing both at once 2010

It's violin-shaped, it's violin-sized, it has arching like a violin, it has f-holes, it's got a scroll, it's got corners and it's got bent ribs and all these things mean that this violin could be made to sound very good.

Isolating the Violin's Song 2007

It was embodied in the long and elegant inner bouts, the perfect scrolls, and the lovely perpendicular f-holes crafted two hundred and fifty years ago by Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri.

A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

Based on the T5-C, the STSM-T5 features a thin-line opaque black body made of sapele paired with a maple top adorned with stylized, unbound f-holes.

Gearwire - 2010

The arched top and f-holes appealed to jazz and dance-band players who were still attached to the look of traditional Gibson "jazz boxes", but who appreciated advancements such as a thinline, double-cutaway body.

Reader - MassLive.com Kevin O'Hare 2010

If it is the a-style with pre-cut f-holes the kit is built by Saga and also sold elsewhere.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

However, I do lust for an arch top & f-holes but since I'm just beginning to learn the thing I am trying to concentrate on that instead of MAS entering into the picture right now.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009