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| blurp | sound of a horn (from "Mr. Brown can moo, can you?" by Dr. Seuss) | |
| bwow-chcka-bwow | funky palm-muted riffs with wah pedal, associated with pornographic movie soundtracks. often combined with playing "airguitar". see also: neow, jug, whockah | |
| cha-cha (-cha) | a fast rhythmic ballroom dance of Latin-American origin with a basic pattern of three steps and a shuffle | |
| chiming | the sound of wedding bells (features in the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe) | |
| clanging | sound of fire bells (features in the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe) | |
| cry | verb for the sound of a trumpet (in the poem "Lepanto" by G. K. Chesterton: "... Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips, Trumpet that sayeth ha! Domino gloria! ..." | |
| deed-a-reedle | sound of a fiddle ("the ceremonial band" by James Reeves, in "Noisy poems" by Jill Bennett) | |
| didgeridoo | indigenous Australian instrument, of imitative origin. link (video) | ding-dong | tolling of a bell |
| doo-wop | style in vocal rhythm and blues music from the 1950-1960, in which ad-lib syllables such as "doo wop, doo wah" are sung in harmony link (video) | |
| fanfare | a flourish of brass instruments, of imitative origin. link (video) | |
| fillip | sound of snapping the fingers | |
| gada, gada, gada | sound of drums ("Misoso: Once Upon a Time Tales from Africa", by Verna Aardema) | |
| gong | metallic disk used as a percussive musical instrument named by the sound produced when struck | |
| groan | 1. to utter a loud deep sound of grief or pain, 2. the sound of funeral bells (in the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe, 3. sound of drums (in the poem "Lepanto" by G. K. Chesterton: "...For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar ..." | |
| honk | 1. bird vocalization (goose), 2. car-horn | |
| jug | sound of palm-muted power chords on an electric guitar. used in playing "air-guitar". often repetitive (jug jug jug - jug jug jug), typical of the musical style. as in Foo Fighters - "One by One". see also: neow, whockah, bwow-chcka-bwow | |
| knell | sound of a bell struck or rung | |
| kra, ka, ka, hi | sound of drums ("Misoso: Once Upon a Time Tales from Africa", by Verna Aardema) | |
| lilt | sound of horn, or singing | |
| neow | sound of individual legato notes on an electric guitar, as in the guitar part in verse of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit: neow neow, neow neow. often combined with playing "airguitar" | |
| oompah | the sound produced by a large brass instrument | |
| pah-pa-rah | sound of a trumpet ("the ceremonial band" by James Reeves, in "Noisy poems" by Jill Bennett) | |
| pickle-pee | sound of a fife ("the ceremonial band" by James Reeves, in "Noisy poems" by Jill Bennett). a fife is a small, high-pitched, transverse flute that is similar to the piccolo, but louder and shriller due to its narrower bore | |
| plunk | to pluck a string instrument, or to suddenly drop | |
| pump-a-rum | sound of a drum ("the ceremonial band" by James Reeves, in "Noisy poems" by Jill Bennett) | |
| rataplan | word imitating the sound of the side-drum and used for music pieces, especially in opera, of a military-march character. | |
| rinky-dink | banjo music | |
| rub-a-dub | drumming sound. Also a musical style similar to reggae | |
| snap | to make a cracking sound, eg. snapping your fingers | |
| strum | to play a guitar. See also thrum | |
| thrum | to play a guitar | |
| tick | a light rhythmic audible tap or beat | |
| tinkling | sound of sleigh bells, (features in the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe) | |
| tom-tom | a monotonous beating, rhythm, or rhythmical sound / a percussive musical instrument played with hands | |
| tolling | funeral bells (features in the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe) | |
| toot | to blow or sound an instrument (as a horn) | |
| tootle-too | sound of a flute ("the ceremonial band" by James Reeves, in "Noisy poems" by Jill Bennett) | |
| twang | sound of a guitar, or of a bow (and arrow) | |
| tweeter | loudspeaker for high frequencies | |
| untz untz untz | The sound a raver makes while raving, the sound of a techno groove | |
| wah-wah | brass instrument effect of using a mute, or electric guitar sound effect | |
| whistle | tubular wind instrument, or the act of whistling | |
| whockah | sound of palm-muted rhythmic strumming on an electric guitar with wah pedal, as in the intro of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile", for example. often combined with playing "airguitar". see also: neow, jug, bwow-chcka-bwow | |
| yodel | to sing by suddenly changing from a natural voice to a falsetto and back; also: to shout or call in a similar manner | |
| zoomba-zoom | sound of a bass (musical instrument) ("the ceremonial band" by James Reeves, in "Noisy poems" by Jill Bennett) | |
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