These include unfretted stringed instruments (such as the violin, viola, cello and double bass, and fretless guitars), stringed instruments with a way of stretching the strings (such as the guitar, veena, or sitar), a fretted guitar or lap steel guitar when accompanied with the use of a slide, wind instruments without ...

What instrument can play a glissando?

With instruments such as the piano, xylophone or harp a glissando is a quick slide in which we hear one note after another because the pitches between the notes cannot be played. On the piano there are two ways to play a glissando: either on the white notes or on the black notes.

What is the only woodwind instrument that can play glissando?

The “natural” glissando is executed by sliding the fingers over the holes and keys while tightening and loosening the throat. The glissando can be performed in almost all registers of the clarinet except at certain points of passage from open (holes open) to closed (holes closed) instrument.