'triple tonguing' definitions:
Definition of 'triple tonguing'
From: GCIDE
- Tonguing \Tongu"ing\, vb. n. (Music) Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute. In single tonguing only one kind of stroke is used, the tongue articulating a rapid "t;" in double tonguing, two strokes, as for "t" and "k," are alternated; in {triple tonguing}, "t, k, t," etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]