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Portamento. In music, portamento (plural: portamenti, from old Italian: portamento, meaning "carriage" or "carrying") is a pitch sliding from one note to another. The term originated from the Italian expression " portamento della voce " ("carriage of the voice"), denoting from the beginning of the 17th century its use in vocal performances [1 ...
Mandobass. The Mandobass is the largest (and least common) member of the mandolin family, sometimes used as the bass instrument in mandolin orchestras. It is so large that players usually hold it like a double bass —upright and supported on an endpin that rests on the floor. The neck-scale length on a full-size mando-bass is similar to that ...
Schagerl. The valve trombone is a brass instrument in the trombone family that has a set of valves to vary the pitch instead of (or in addition to) a slide. Although it has been built in sizes from alto to contrabass, it is the tenor valve trombone pitched in B♭ an octave lower than the trumpet which has seen the most widespread use.
Slide guitar. A musician playing slide guitar style; The slide is on his left ring finger. He is playing a metal-body resonator guitar (a National -type) using fingerpicks on his right hand. Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide ...
Left to right: replica alto, tenor and bass sackbuts, in Museu de la Música de Barcelona. Four sackbuts: two tenors, left & middle; alto, top; bass, right. A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. A sackbut has the characteristic telescopic slide of a trombone, used to vary the length of the tube ...
The contrabass trombone (German: Kontrabassposaune, Italian: trombone contrabbasso) is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.While modern instruments are pitched in 12 ft (12 ′) F with a single slide, the first practical contrabass trombones appeared in the mid-19th century built in 18 ′ B♭ an octave below the tenor trombone with a double slide.
Bass note or chord performed continuously throughout a composition drop Jazz term referring to a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically downwards duolo (Ital.) grief dumpf (Ger.) Dull Dur (Ger.) major; used in key signatures as, for example, A-Dur , B-Dur (B ♭ major), or H-Dur (see also Moll (minor)) dynamics
The bass trombone (German: Bassposaune, Italian: trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone but with a larger bore, bell and mouthpiece to facilitate low register playing, and usually two valves to fill in the missing range immediately above the pedal tones.