Vibrato

The fretting hand can add vibrato to a plucked or picked note, either a gentle, narrow vibrato or a more exaggerated, wide vibrato with bigger pitch variations.

There are two styles of vibrato possible, hand vibrato and breath vibrato.

Against the fashion of the time, Buchanan stressed the importance of playing without vibrato ; he was reported to have slapped Davis' knuckles every time he started using heavy vibrato.

A so-called "vibrato unit" in a guitar amplifier actually produces tremolo, while a " tremolo arm " or "whammy bar" on a guitar produces vibrato.

Different types of vibrato will bring different moods to the piece, and the varying degrees and styles of vibrato are often characteristics that stand out in well-known violinists.

Further, it is impossible to use vibrato fully on an open string (though a partial effect can be achieved by stopping a note an octave up on an adjacent string and vibrating that, which introduces an element of vibrato into the overtones).

In hand vibrato, the player applies a gentle motion to one end of the pan flute (usually the high end) in much the same way as the violin vibrato is achieved by rocking the hand from the wrist.

It contained separate "vibrato bass" and "vibrato treble" in an attempt to simulate a Leslie speaker.

One method, called hand vibrato, involves rocking the hand back at the wrist to achieve oscillation, while another method, arm vibrato, modulates the pitch by rocking at the elbow.

Two variations of the vibrato were provided, plus a chorus that mixed various vibrato signals together.

Vibrato does little, if anything, to disguise an out-of-tune note; in other words, misapplied vibrato is a poor substitute for good intonation.

Vibrato trill Vibrato can also be used for a fast trill.

With expiration of the Fender patent on the Stratocaster -style vibrato, various improvements on this type of internal, multi-spring vibrato system are now available.

It offers a range of features, including key detection, real-time pitch correction, advanced vibrato control, and formant preservation.

I’ve heard him go higher than I go, and with more quivering goose-bump vibrato.

Richard Lloyd (in an interview with Damien Love) gets to the point, “he used the classical vibrato.

Then, of course, there's the distinctive Bigsby vibrato tailpiece.

Verlaine was known for his jagged guitar playing style involving heavy vibrato and distortion and off-kilter lyrics.

Fleet has never had vocal training, which makes the hard vibrato at the end all the more impressive.

Yeah, I know the type, who speaks with radical vibrato but watches revolutions from the sidelines with high criticism.