accompanyist


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Noun1.accompanyist - a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano)accompanyist - a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano)
accompanist
instrumentalist, musician, player - someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
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As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song; which having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.
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(21) One Oscar Comettant bemoans the lack of decent accompanists in Paris: "Piano accompanyist! Everybody fancies he is one, for the mildest amateur accompanies in a pinch.
Presiding at the pianoforte: a brief history of accompanying
But when he wasn't working for Celts or playing organ in chapel, McLaughlin - a founder of the Scottish League in 1893 - was performing across the city as Gers' official accompanyist.
CELTIC BOSS LED GERS IN SINGSONGS; Exclusive Historian tells of Old Firm knees-up

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