flangern.
/ˈflandʒə/ 1. (See quot. 1893.)
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1893 Labour Commission Gloss. Flangers, also called ‘boiler-smiths’, are men, in the shipbuilding industry, who bend the plate edges where angles cannot be made to fit.
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2. U.S. A vertical iron or steel bar for scraping snow and ice from the inside of rail-heads to make room for the wheel-flanges ( Standard Dict.).
Draft additions 1993
3. Music. A device which alters a sound signal by introducing a cyclically varying phase shift into one of two identical copies of the signal and recombining them (see flanging n. Additions). Cf. phaser n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > electronic > electronic effects and devices
tremolo1959
trem arm1961
tremolo arm1961
fuzzbox1964
wah-wah1968
wah-wah pedal1969
voice1970
phasera1974
patch1975
sequencer1975
drum machine1976
flanger1979
pitchbend1982
beat-box1983
MIDI1983
1979 Washington Post 20 May n3/4 Ferry's voice turns inhuman as a flanger distorts it electronically.
1980 M. Ross-Trevor in Gammond & Horricks Music goes round & Round vi. 120 Listen to that vocal I put through the flanger.
1985 Internat. Musician June 37/3 Then I split the signal into stereo and use a stereo AMS echo, a flanger and a harmoniser.
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