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Musical slidings are slidings with a difference (9)

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I believe the answer is:

glissandi

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'musical slidings' is the definition.
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'slidings with a difference' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'difference' is an anagram indicator.
'slidings'+'a'='slidingsa'
'slidingsa' is an anagram of 'GLISSANDI'.

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(Other definitions for glissandi that I've seen before include "Players may perform them" , "Slides (music)" , "Series of rapidly ascending or descending musical notes" , "Musical terms" , "playing, while sliding up and down the passages" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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