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overblow

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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.

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In 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

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