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Glissando requires sliding across piano keys

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Instead of carefully picking out individual notes, the pianist simply drags their fingernail across thirty keys in a frantic blur. It looks completely chaotic but delivers a dramatic cascading effect that makes crowds go wild.

Glissando requires sliding across piano keys
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