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effect on tone

• In sound: Other effects on tone

  Vibrato (a periodic slow change in pitch) and tremolo (a periodic slow change in amplitude) also aid the analysis of steady-state sounds.

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music technique

• In musical notation: Tablatures

  …ancillary techniques such as harmonics, vibrato, and left-hand plucking. To indicate these, the tablature may use letters, numbers, and graphic signs. Thus, 16th-century French lute tablatures indicate the strings (more properly the “courses”) graphically as parallel horizontal lines, frets as letters, and right-hand fingering by dots. Italian lute tablatures use…

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