vibrato

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  1. noun A tremulous or pulsating effect produced in an instrumental or vocal tone by minute and rapid variations in pitch.

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  • ・ I've always been partial to a bit of Hosokawa Takashi and Hikawa Kiyoshi, but Kaneda Tomoko has truly taken the enka genre and run away with it - her vibrato is especially impressive. —  Anime Nano!
  • Between the rhetorical delivery and the swelling vibrato, there were moments when I scarcely knew what she was singing. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • "The Stratocaster Chronicles," a book celebrating the instrument's 50th anniversary, adds that Randall's "ongoing requests for a vibrato-equipped, three-pickup guitar" influenced Fender to design the Stratocaster. —  IdahoStatesman.com News Updates
  • He also abhors vibrato, the lush but wobbly sound of strings and woodwinds that he sees as a blight inflicted in the 1930s, and favors what he calls "pure tone." —  Reuters: Top News
  • For an opera singer with a "wide" vibrato, the pitch might range as much as a fifth-a pretty big interval-from top to bottom. —  Slate Magazine
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  1. Italian, from Late Latin vibrātus, a quivering, from Latin, past participle of vibrāre, to vibrate; see vibrate.
 

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