Klarinet Archive - Posting 000219.txt from 2009/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Glissando vs. portamento
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:41:11 -0400

Mark Charette wrote:
> Bill Hausmann wrote:
>> I believe portamento is exclusively a string term,
>
> Hmmmm - don't see any strings on my organ with a big portamento wheel on
> it ... :)

Interesting. Electronic or acoustic organ? And I presume you mean the
pitchwheel that you also get on many electronic keyboards?

('Pitchwheel' being the term used in the MIDI description of its effect,
as I recall...)

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