Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2004/06

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] glissando help
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 12:38:18 -0400

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:32:34 -0700, ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby
Montoya) wrote:

>In the next paragraph, some six or seven sentences later, the Harvard
>dictionary discusses stringed instruments and woodwinds and finally
>introduces the (not universally accepted) distinction that some
>instruments "may produce a continuous variation in pitch rather than a
>rapid succession of discrete pitches [...] and is sometimes termed
>portabello"
>

Karl is right, a "portabello" is either a mushroom or a town on the
Spanish main. I believe the term you're actually looking for is
"portamento".

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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