Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
key , 4 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A key or thing touched to produce a tone.
- noun single touch; -- in old music, a direction denoting that the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
key or similar part of amusical instrument that istouched to produce a sound
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.)
Practicing Steve Perry 2010
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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.)
Archive 2010-06-01 Steve Perry 2010
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The Corporate Machine: Inserisci talento e premi il tasto Distruggi.
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I learn up bow and down bow, the golden mean, staccato and legato, sul tasto and sul ponticello.
A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001
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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.
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Ciao Giovanni, You wrote on 15/04/2010: tasto dolente di cui?
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Ciao Giovanni, You wrote on 15/04/2010: tasto dolente di cui?
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Una chicca è rappresentata dal coperchio della lente che si apre e chiude automaticamente con la pressione del tasto on/off.
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Ciao Giovanni, You wrote on 15/04/2010: tasto dolente di cui?
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Ciao Giovanni, You wrote on 15/04/2010: tasto dolente di cui?
bilby commented on the word tasto
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*
June 8, 2009
plethora commented on the word tasto
Please to be bracketing *facepizza*, bilby.
June 8, 2009
madmouth commented on the word tasto
Please to be bracketing please to be bracketing, plethora
June 8, 2009