vibrato

It’s well to remember that in the early days of synthesizing instruments, violins with perfect vibrato sounded especially fake, until tiny errors generated by chance were added to the sine waves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Ms. Burgess’s light soprano and plaintive vibrato suggest that Thorn Rose is not entirely convinced that awakening is a good idea, but she goes along with it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The pair cherrypicked from the two models, and made alterations to things like vibrato speed, or slowing and relaxing phrases.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

Mr. Eddy, who was self-taught, devised his rhythmic melodicism by playing the lead lines on his recordings on his guitar’s bass strings and by liberally using the vibrato bar.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2024

Then he settled down into hymns that liked a trembling vibrato.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

There, a strange man with an oboe sat on the ridge of his tooth, playing wide vibratos through nimbusfog.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

All the poignant sentiment that Lennon and Ono imbued the song with is completely sucked out by singer Adam Levine’s reaching aria and overdone vibratos.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2018

King’s shudders and vibratos, half-shouts and glottal stops have become a synecdoche for the ongoing struggle for American freedom.

From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017

The store’s guitar tech shakes his hand, and within minutes, they’re geeking out over Bigsby vibratos, P-90 pickups and the pink, 1956 Gibson lap steel Bonamassa recently found.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2016

Then their whinnied replies came back in trembling vibratos.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older