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James Romig: Sonnet 2
Edward Taylor: Voices in the Night
The other extremely common technique in flute writing is the pitch bend, or glissando. There are two different kinds of glissandi, the fingered gliss, and the lip gliss. The lip gliss has a smaller pitch range than the fingered variety.