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  • Through the stillness of th Elsian night there came a faint wavering tremelo -- a feminine cry that rose in crescendo to a wailing scream.

    "Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 9 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Through the stillness of th Elsian night there came a faint wavering tremelo -- a feminine cry that rose in crescendo to a wailing scream.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Phil and Leonard Chess, of Chess records, liked the demo, especially the tremelo on the guitar, a sound that seem to slosh around like water.

    The Fall online - latest Fall News 2008

  • It's got everything a good black metal album needs: raw shrieking vocals, fast tremelo picked guitars that carry most of the melody, abundant double bass drums, and an overall foreboding, evil atmosphere.

    Machines of Ceaseless Ruin (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • The shaking began again, a tremelo building in his hand and knees.

    Shades of Milk and Honey, Chapter Seventeen, redux maryrobinette 2007

  • The Four Pennies, a largely-forgotten group who never cracked the US charts, are introduced performing their glimmering tremelo ballad "Juliet," a UK radio hit, but their second number is a disarming cover of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"

    POP GEAR on Flix 2006

  • The Four Pennies, a largely-forgotten group who never cracked the US charts, are introduced performing their glimmering tremelo ballad "Juliet," a UK radio hit, but their second number is a disarming cover of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"

    Archive 2006-09-10 2006

  • Classical guitar is nice, in that the sounds resonate in machine gun fashion, as you say, and you create and destroy beauty at an alarming rate, hence the tremelo.

    Guitarzan ... Steve Perry 2006

  • In the early 70s sax and clarinet players started to feel a bit left out of the effects loop, and wanted a piece of the jazz fuzz tremelo pie.

    eBay of the Day: Sound System for Woodwinds 2005

  • They've just announced a big new Vintage Series including a delay, compressor, tremelo and various distortions.

    TC Electronics' sexy Scandinavian guitar pedals 2005

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