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couac Mus.|kuːˈæk|
[Fr.]
(See quot. 1876). Also transf.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 111/2 Couac, an onomatopœic word for the sound made by bad blowing on the clarinet, oboe, or bassoon. The quacking sound, the goose note. 1877tr. Offenbach's Amer. & Americans xxii. 81 My two clarionets made couacs every instant. 1889G. B. Shaw London Music in 1888–89 (1937) 250 He is the first operatic vocalist I ever saw leap into popularity by a couac, as the French call it. There was one note in his song upon which his voice broke every time with irresistibly comic effect. 1938A. E. Wier Macmillan Encycl. Mus., Couac,..the ‘goose’; a sudden noise produced by the clarinet when the reed gets out of order. |