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How is hauchend played?
Adjust the air stream and tone production so breath noise is perceptible alongside or around the intended sound, using an instrument-appropriate embouchure, voicing or attack. The requested balance can range from a lightly aerated pitch to strongly air-dominant sound and must be inferred from dynamics, notation, register and any performance legend. Do not substitute a fixed air percentage, whisper, air-only technique or normal unpitched exhalation unless the score says so.
How does hauchend sound?
airy, breathy tone
In context
Hauchend is a contextual German breath-quality direction. It preserves the possibility of a pitched core and therefore differs from nur Luft or ohne Ton when those explicitly suppress normal tone; it also differs from Klappengeräusch, whose source is mechanical impact, and from flüsternd, which is primarily a whispering character. The result and duration remain local and instrument-dependent. No candidate had three independent direct expansions, so hauchend remains written out.