slap-tonguev.
intransitive. To produce a staccato effect in playing the saxophone by striking the tongue against the reed.
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slap-tongue1927
1927 Melody Maker May 503/1 How to slap-tongue is not the easiest thing to explain in words.
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ˈslap-tongue adj. playing or played with this technique.
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slap-tongue1963
1963 Down Beat 3 Jan. 20 His first solo with Henderson, a clownlike, slap-tongue effort.
1971 Daily Tel. 18 Sept. 7/8 Henderson's Columbia sessions..despite occasional farmyard noises and slaptongue reeds offer good Redman and Charlie Green.
ˈslap-tonguing n.
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slap-tonguing1926
1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. 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.
1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) VII. 433/2 Tongued staccato playing..was at one period developed by dance musicians into a curious explosive effect termed ‘slap~tonguing’.
1969 Listener 12 June 838/1 Experimentation was limited to exploiting its [sc. the saxophone's] agility..or producing comic effects by slap tonguing.
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