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• n  (music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones
• n  vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one

• The critics cheered her acting performance, generally agreed that her voice, if tremolo-ridden, was strong, wide-ranging and well used.
• He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes.
• His Hamlet is passionate sometimes to the point of hysteria and Chamberlain's accents (well east of mid-Atlantic) are tinged with tremolo.

News & Articles

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• Watch: Lana Del Rey plays wicked games in moody 'West Coast' video
  When Lana Del Rey debuted "West Coast" at last month's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the song's tremolo guitar line suggested that she'd been listening lately to Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game." Now the video for the single makes it almost certain. Posted Wednesday to YouTube, the...
  May 7, 2014 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Ry Cooder in calendarlive.com
  I thought, 'This is something like I've never heard in my life, this is something incredible, with this tremolo guitar and the spooky harmony and all that,'says Cooder. "Pops, he had hit upon something, he really did. He seemed to know...
• Jon Pareles in Online Athens
  The music is "supposed to be compassionate, empathetic, magnanimous, inspirational," Pareles wrote. "But when the music swells up once more with tremolo guitar and chiming keyboards, and Mr. Martin's voice breaks for the umpteenth time, it...
• Neko Case in New York Times
  I wish I had a tremolo,Neko Case said.