Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as key, 4 .
Wiktionary
- n. music A key or similar part of a musical instrument that is touched to produce a sound
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) A key or thing touched to produce a tone.
Etymologies
- Italian (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Both require learning about tone and timbre and sustain; what the instrument sounds like with your picking hand above the sound hole (sul tasto) versus near the bridge (metallico.)”
“The Corporate Machine: Inserisci talento e premi il tasto Distruggi.”
“I learn up bow and down bow, the golden mean, staccato and legato, sul tasto and sul ponticello.”
“Playing with the bow close to the bridge (sul ponticello), chiefly used tremolando, produces a metallic sound; playing on the finger-board (sul tasto, flautando) creates a dull, veiled effect.”
“Ciao Giovanni, You wrote on 15/04/2010: tasto dolente di cui?”
“Una chicca è rappresentata dal coperchio della lente che si apre e chiude automaticamente con la pressione del tasto on/off.”
“Non ho avuto tempo di preparare una versione compressa: se va troppo lento, premete il tasto Vimeo.”
“Bow position control (sul tasto and sul ponticelli), up and down bowing, realistic legato and portamento, body / sympathetic resonance behavior modeling, adjustable noise (bow, pluck and snap noise) and controllable loose / tight articulations are also included.”
“Oboe Concerto (Allegro non tasto - Largo, Allegro non molto) - Burchard Glaetzner, oboe;”
“The stoic philosophy endeavoured t» ihtroduce a total apathy, and, though it was not ens* btaeed, in all its rigidity, by the vulgar, yet it Itad % ■ sifficient number of votaries to diffuse a general tasto for ad insehsibilrty of temper.”
Lists
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The condom-free preserve
Italian-English false friends.
One a day, maybe even less.
Contributors: Prolagus, bilbypreservative, engross, camera, janitor, dent, fastidious, morbid, crude, juvenile, bald, confetti, pollution and 29 more...
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madmouth Please to be bracketing please to be bracketing, plethora Jun 8, 2009
plethora Please to be bracketing *facepizza*, bilby. Jun 8, 2009
bilby Italian - key, button (of a machine). It does not mean taste.
Foreigner at espresso machine: See here. It says Premere il tasto X. That's for premium taste, right?
Italiano: No, it just means 'Press button X'.
Foreigner: Press button?
Italian: Yes.
Foreigner: With my tongue?
Italian: *facepizza* Jun 8, 2009