Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wavering sound resembling the vowels of human speech, produced by alternately covering and uncovering the bell of a trumpet or trombone with a mute.
- noun A similar sound produced by means of an electronic attachment, as on an electric guitar, operated by a foot pedal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Bornean gibbon, Hylobates leuciscus. The name is used as a book-name and is frequently applied to other species of gibbons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective music Modifying the
resonance of musicalnotes to produce the effect of ahuman voice . - noun music A
wavering sound produced by means of a movablemute or by electronic means
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also banned were saxophones, wah-wah trumpet mutes, the plucking of bass strings, the deliberate lowering of tones to create “blue notes,” and the playing of drums with too much rhythm.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Having Robert Carlyle talking to a mirror, porn ‘stache in full effect, is a solid start in that it establishes nothing but as the 70’s wah-wah guitar starts in it all at least feels like a jaunty trip into a movie that feels fun.
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Pickpockets are disappearing Ambient music and cop radio go well together Social media is driven by the fear of missing out Roger Sterling's sexiest one-liners What space smells like How they invented the wah-wah pedal The sexy sax man is above the law We love the bit in a movie when they say the name of the movie The beauty of scaffoldingThe average Briton has three mysterious keys
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Taylor has always had an innate sense of how to emphasize certain Western elements in his music such as the wah-wah guitar pedal and JB's influenced horn lines to compliment the more pronounced African elements such as traditional African percussion and Ghanaian lyrics.
Modiba: Love and Death , the New Album from Ghanaian Legend Ebo Taylor Modiba 2010
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In Tallahassee, Florida she is the Head Cheese of the Mickee Faust Academy for the REALLY Dramatic Arts and the co-founder of the Mickee Faust Club, a performance group responsible for the award-winning video parodies, "Annie Dearest, The Real Miracle Worker," featuring lots and lots of wah-wah, and "The Scary Lewis Yell-a-thon," featuring a Jerry Lewis look-alike and a bevy of inspirational cripples.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Almost every step in between is a high energy flood of brass, bass and wah-wah guitar.
Midweek Music Moment: Bill Chase « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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At the very least his creative drive, technical ability and painterly application of such effects as wah-wah and distortion forever transformed the sound of rock and roll.
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The Ebène Quartet's latest release, "Fiction" Virgin Classics, documents just about everything these four musicians like to do in jazz—from accompanying soprano Natalie Dessay's vocals in Harold Arlen's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" to producing funk and wah-wah guitar effects on 17th-century Italian violins while zipping through the "Ocean's 12" theme with drummer Richard Héry.
An Eclectic Quartet With Élan Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Almost every step in between is a high energy flood of brass, bass and wah-wah guitar.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Midweek Music Moment: Bill Chase » Print 2009
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In Tallahassee, Florida she is the Head Cheese of the Mickee Faust Academy for the REALLY Dramatic Arts and the co-founder of the Mickee Faust Club, a performance group responsible for the award-winning video parodies, "Annie Dearest, The Real Miracle Worker," featuring lots and lots of wah-wah, and "The Scary Lewis Yell-a-thon," featuring a Jerry Lewis look-alike and a bevy of inspirational cripples.
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