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  1. n. music A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes.
  2. n. music The rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mus.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

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  • “Directly afterwards he began to run up and down, playing through some exercise with which he was familiar extremely softly; and then by way of a change he began what is technically known as "double-tonguing.”

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