| 单词 | octave key |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoctave key octave key n. a key on a wind instrument used to produce a note an octave higher than the note that is being fingered. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > [noun] > parts generally > key stopc1500 key1754 octave key1866 speaker-key1890 touch key1891 1866 Sci. Amer. 15 292/1 I claim the combination of the lever, H, and its flexile connections, a a, with the two octave keys of a piano-forte. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 487/1 In more modern instruments [sc. oboes] a second octave-key has been introduced..which is usually lifted on reaching A above the stave. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 274/1 The first 15 semitones are obtained by opening successive keys, the rest of the compass by means of octave keys enabling the performer to sound the harmonic octave of the fundamental scale. 1957 A. C. Baines Woodwind Instruments & their Hist. iv. 106 With full automatic octave keys, the G♯ key, when pressed, holds down ring III. 1999 H. Mandel Future Jazz 115 Eight brass rollers are affixed to the tube's underside, where the octave key is on clarinets. < as lemmas |
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