What's a Glissando?  Read on...

SYLLABICATION:	glis·san·do
PRONUNCIATION:	gl-sän´d  (click on the trumpet for a voice pronunciation)
NOUN :	Music Inflected forms: pl. —di (-d) or —dos A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones in a scalelike passage.
ETYMOLOGY:	French glissade, See GLISSADE. + -ando. as in accelerando

My wife, Heidi, came up with the name not only for its musical connotations, but more importantly because she thought (and I agree) that the waves moving past a hull sounded like glissandos.  Listen for yourself sometime!

Glissando, Pearson  Triton #381
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