In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (Play). It is an Italianized...

can produce a true glissando, by moving the slide without interrupting the airflow or sound production. Every pitch in a glissando must have the same...

The glissando illusion is an auditory illusion, created when a sound with a fixed pitch, such as a synthesized oboe tone, is played together with a sine...

An octave glissando is a glissando played on the piano by maintaining a constant distance of an octave between the thumb and finger used to execute it...

Glissando is a 1982 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Daneliuc. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at...

glissando with gradual modulations. A section near the end of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen incorporates multiple descending Shepard tone glissandos...

mano. Tip tone. 9. Tono de uñas. Fingernails tone. 10. Tono deslizado. Glissando tone. There are four basic strokes in conga drumming: Open tone (tono...

The glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of...

voltage-controlled synthesizers, with keyboard sensitivity allowing for vibrato, glissando, and attack control. In 1957, Harry Olson and Herbert Belar completed...

in a wire frame ending in a handle. Used in classic cartoons for its glissando effect, its sound is comparable to the musical saw. [The] flexatone [is...