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Vibrato wavers about six times a second
Small, regular pitch wobbles make a sustained note sound fuller String and wind players vary the rate and width by style and era, and singers use it for projection. Some twentieth century players reduced it to match period instruments. Electronic keyboards simulate it with an LFO. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Vibrato wavers about six times a second: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Small, regular pitch wobbles make a sustained note sound fuller. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a music fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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