String instruments are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative playing techniques have been used extensively since...

melody." Guitar technique Thumb position Bowed string instrument extended technique Embouchure (wind instruments) Growling (wind instruments) Multiphonic...

wheel whose rosined edge touches the strings. Bowed instruments include the string section instruments of the orchestra in Western classical music (violin...

strings, bowed harmonics have a "glassy", pure tone. On stringed instruments, harmonics are played by touching (but not fully pressing down the string) at...

Playing a string harmonic (a flageolet) is a string instrument technique that uses the nodes of natural harmonics of a musical string to isolate overtones...

is also a plucked string instrument, as its strings are struck with a plectrum when the keys are depressed. Bowed string instruments, such as the violin...

Danse Macabre, which requires the E string to be tuned down a semitone. Bowed string instrument extended technique Pitch (music) Malella, Tejas. "Indian...

On a string instrument, position is the relative location of the hand on the instrument's neck, indicated by ordinal numbers (e.g., 3rd). Fingering, independent...

weight applied to the string, and point of contact of the bow hair with the string. The closer to the bridge the string is bowed, the more projecting and...

about specific playing techniques (e.g., which fingers, keys, or pedals are to be used, whether a string instrument should be bowed or plucked, or whether...

also made heavy use of extended techniques. Examples of extended techniques include bowing under the bridge of a string instrument or with two different...

primary technique is to bow the strings, a tradition which dates back to instruments like the bowed clavier and the hurdy gurdy. Unlike those instruments, which...

ledger lines below the staff. The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths (like a bass guitar, viol, or the lowest-sounding...

and Latin lyra) is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments. In organology, a lyre...

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and...

thought to have been borrowed from the tromba marina (monochord), a bowed string instrument. During the late Renaissance, two characteristic shapes of hurdy-gurdies...

Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the...

quarters of its value double stop The technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a bowed string instrument doux, douce gentle, sweet, soft downtempo...

applied to many other musical instruments as well: the yangqin hammered dulcimer, the huqin family of bowed string instruments, and the Western piano (gangqin...

earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked (for example, the Greek lyre). Two-stringed, bowed instruments, played upright and strung and bowed with...

the technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument such as a violin, a viola, a cello, or a double bass. On instruments such...

In music for bowed string instruments, col legno, or more precisely col legno battuto (Italian for 'with the wood [being hit]'; pronounced [kol ˈleɲɲo...

String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe pianistic extended techniques in which sound...

You Love Us and in SebastiAn's 2010 release Bird Games. Bowed string instrument extended technique The UNESCO prize is not restricted to choosing a single...

includes wind, reed, and brass instruments, as well as the human voice. Multiphonic-like sounds on string instruments, both bowed and hammered, have also been...

mandolino, pronounced [mandoˈliːno]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most...

of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, such as the...

Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally...

shaped instruments that also includes the hammered dulcimer family and piano and a few rare bowed instruments like the bowed psaltery, bowed dulcimer...

bridge radius can be bowed. Some EUBs are designed with integral stands, freeing the player from the need to brace/support the instrument. More rarely, EUBs...