couacn.
/kuːˈak/ Music.
(See quot. 1876). Also transferred.
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couac1876
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical 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.
1877 tr. Offenbach's Amer. & Americans xxii. 81 My two clarionets made couacs every instant.
1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 19 Nov. 2/4 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.
1938 A. E. Wier Macmillan Encycl. Music & Musicians Couac,..the ‘goose’; a sudden noise produced by the clarinet when the reed gets out of order.
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