overblowing

Pressurizing for overtones

Overblowing is a technique on wind instruments where the player increases air pressure to produce higher notes—typically an octave or more above the fundamental pitch.

Flutes and clarinets are designed to be overblown for their upper registers.

Outside music, overblowing means exaggerating or making too much of something: The media is overblowing the scandal.

exaggeration

embellish

Add decorative elements

inflateFill with gas
overstateRepresent as greater
amplifyIncrease in strength

dramatize · overemphasize · overestimate · overplay · oversell · overdramatize · overdo · overstretch · magnify · hyperbolize

musical

overplay

Emphasize excessively

sharpFine-edged, or astute
embouchureWind player's mouth position
brassCopper-zinc metal mixture

horn · trumpet · tuba · woodwind · pitch · tone · fortissimo · blare · blast · screech

rhetoric

hyperbole

Rhetorical extreme exaggeration

bombastPretentious hollow language
grandiloquencePompous, extravagant language
pufferyOverblown self-promotion

melodrama · sensationalism · theatricality · flourish · embellishment · bravado · ostentation · pretension · turgidity · purple prose

wind

gust

Brief wind surge

blastSudden forceful burst
squallBrief, violent windstorm
galeSevere sustained wind

windstorm · tempest · billow · buffet · bluster · draft · breeze · whoosh · rush · surge

overblowing

embellish

overplay

hyperbole

gust

overblowing

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