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- What happens when a harp player plays the glissando?
- What instrument is most common to do a glissando?
- What happens during a glissando?
What happens when a harp player plays the glissando?
Discrete glissando
On some instruments (e.g., piano, harp, xylophone), discrete tones are clearly audible when sliding. ... On a harp, the player can slide their finger across the strings, quickly playing the scale (or on pedal harp even arpeggios such as C♭-D-E♯-F-G♯-A♭-B).
What instrument is most common to do a glissando?
One well-known appearance of the gliss is in George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," which features a clarinet sliding up to the first sustained note of the piece. The instrument best known for its sliding notes is the trombone, which uses a set of sliding tubes to move the instrument smoothly from note to note.
What happens during a glissando?
Glissando is one of the forms of playing the piano, in which you produce sounds using specific fingers by swiping them across the keys. It is an interlude that you create between the chord changes to cover up the break between the two chords.
