“I loved knowing that the music I was playing and the words I was speaking were in people's homes and cars, in the kitchen at restaurants or on tinny boomboxes in freshman dorm rooms.”

“Some metals have that cheap, tinny feel to them and this is not one of them.”

“It does not like to be beaten up for a fortissimo and if you do this, it will get back at you by giving you a rather tinny sound.”

“The tin kettle shone brightly on the stovetop.”