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ˈslap-tongue, v.
Also slaptongue, slap tongue.
[f. slap v.1 + tongue n.]
intr. To produce a staccato effect in playing the saxophone by striking the tongue against the reed. So ˈslap-tonguing vbl. n.; hence ˈslap-tongue a., playing or played with this technique.
1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz ix. 203 Slap tonguing is accomplished by sucking on the reed, thus creating a vacuum, then hitting the vacuum with the tongue, causing a pop. 1927Melody Maker May 503/1 How to slap-tongue is not the easiest thing to explain in words. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) VII. 433/2 Tongued staccato playing..was at one period developed by dance musicians into a curious explosive effect termed ‘slap⁓tonguing’. 1963Down Beat 3 Jan. 20 His first solo with Henderson, a clownlike, slap-tongue effort. 1969Listener 12 June 838/1 Experimentation was limited to exploiting its [sc. the saxophone's] agility..or producing comic effects by slap tonguing. 1971Daily Tel. 18 Sept. 7/8 Henderson's Columbia sessions..despite occasional farmyard noises and slaptongue reeds offer good Redman and Charlie Green. |