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How is Luftgeräusch played?
Direct the air stream so its noise is clearly audible, using the embouchure, mouthpiece, tube or fingering appropriate to the instrument and the score. Some realizations retain a resonant or fingered pitch trace; others are predominantly unpitched, and a composer may ask for transitions between air and normal tone. Preserve the written rhythm and dynamic, and do not add key clicks, vocal sound, tongue ram, slap tongue or a fixed air-to-tone ratio unless specified. Practical loudness and response depend on instrument, register, microphone or room and player.
How does Luftgeräusch sound?
airy noise with no pitch or only a faint pitch
In context
Luftgeräusch treats audible air as the primary material. It belongs near aeolian sound, breath tone and air-only techniques, but the word alone does not decide whether all pitch is absent. It remains distinct from hauchend, which can describe a breathy quality within a tone, and from Klappengeräusch, which comes from mechanical impacts. No proposed short form received three direct independent expansions of the exact German compound, so Luftgeräusch remains written out.