Violin effect

• Singer's wavering tone
• Oscillatory effect
• Pulsating musical effect
• Fiddle not half inspiring difficult child - that's the effect of music!
• Violinist's effect
• Tremolo's kin

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Characteristically White's opulent bass comes with a pronounced vibrato which tends to get exaggerated on disc. ▪ He whistles with a beautiful, steady vibrato . ▪ In their accompaniments, the strings could have contributed greater ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vibrato ( Italian , from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch . It is used to add expression to vocal and instrumental music. Vibrato is typically characterised in terms of two ...