Definition of Overblowing

1. Verb. (present participle of overblow) ¹

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Definition of Overblowing

1. overblow [v] - See also: overblow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overblowing

overbilling
overbills
overbind
overbinds
overbite
overbites
overbitter
overbleach
overbleached
overbleaches
overbleaching
overblew
overblouse
overblouses
overblow
overblowing (current term)
overblown
overblows
overboard
overboil
overboiled
overboiling
overboils
overbold
overboldness
overbook
overbooked
overbooker
overbookers
overbooking

Literary usage of Overblowing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"The pitch is made higher by overblowing, that is, increasing the force with which the air is directed against the mouthpiece. The more forcefully that is ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"These combinations influence not only the timbre, but principally the harmonics obtained by overblowing and used to supplement the fundamental scale given ..."

3. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"From В flat to F These notes are produced by means the keys only ; the next octave from is obtained by overblowing the notes of the previous octave an ..."

4. The Mineral Industry (1899)
"What might be attained as to elimination of impurities in a converter, by slightly overblowing the charge of metallic copper produced in the ordinary way, ..."

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