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Definition of Overblowing
1. overblow [v] - See also: overblow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overblowing
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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