Verb
To blow over, or be subdued.
To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.
To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn order to produce higher pitches, the player has to "overblow", or increase the air stream to reach the next harmonic. Source: Internet
While Coltrane frequently used over-blowing as an emotional exclamation-point, Sanders would overblow entire solos, resulting in a constant screaming and screeching in the altissimo range of the instrument. Source: Internet
While Coltrane used over-blowing frequently as an emotional exclamation-point, Sanders would opt to overblow his entire solo, resulting in a constant screaming and screeching in the altissimo range of the instrument. Source: Internet
The clarinet is therefore said to overblow at the twelfth, and when moving to the altissimo register, a seventeenth. Source: Internet