wolf tones

When used to eliminate wolf tones on a double bass, it is often attached on the A-string.

Wolf tone eliminators are often placed on cello strings between the tailpiece and the bridge to eliminate acoustic anomalies known as wolf tones or "wolfs".

Wolf tones are usually only noticed on bowed instruments, most notably the violin family, since the tones produced are played for much longer periods, and thus are easier to hear.

In 1897 the club established a very solid foundation when it won the Cork Senior Football Championship by defeating Wolf Tones of Kanturk in the final.

The solid body ensures that the amplified sound reproduces the string vibration alone, thus avoiding the wolf tones and unwanted feedback associated with amplified acoustic guitars of the period.

Bending a note is achieved by modifying the embouchure to raise or lower the pitch fractionally, and compensates for the slightly out of pitch "wolf tones" which all brass instruments have.

Bono went on to become the main singer for U2 after the Wolf Tones had rejected him as their banjo player and Philomena Begley had rejected his efforts to become her lover.

Historian Henry Shoemaker recorded that a hunter named Lewis Dorman (d. 1905) from the Seven Mountains region of Pennsylvania would draw wolves out of the forests by playing wolf tones on an old violin.