Possible Clues:

• Being bent, fiddled
• Acknowledged applause, violin played thus?
• Bachelor with ring got married � submitted to pressure
• Bent forward
• Played, as a cello
• Bent at a curtain call
• After overture initially we are into Beethoven's 1st, with discordant start played on violins
• Took a curtain call, perhaps
• Bent (with age)
• Greeted a king or queen, say