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  2. Violin technique - Wikipedia

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    Left hand finger patterns, after George Bornoff First position fingerings. While beginning violin students often rely on tapes or markers placed on the fingerboard for correct placement of the left-hand fingers, more proficient and experienced players place their fingers on the right spots without such indications but from practice and experience.

  3. List of musical pieces which use extended techniques

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    This is a list of musical compositions that employ extended techniques to obtain unusual sounds or instrumental timbres. Hector Berlioz "Dream of Witches' Sabbath" from Symphonie Fantastique. The violins and violas play col legno, striking the wood of their bows on the strings (Berlioz 1899, 220–22). Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber; Battalia ...

  4. Bowed string instrument extended technique - Wikipedia

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    3rd bridge is a term more used on electric guitars or prepared guitars, but is the same technique. Playing the instrument at a string part behind the bridge causes the opposed part of the string to resonate. The tone is louder at harmonic relations of the bridge string length. On violins the tone can be very high, even above human hearing range.

  5. Violin - Wikipedia

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    Artificial harmonics are more difficult to produce than natural harmonics, as they involve both stopping the string and playing a harmonic on the stopped note. Using the octave frame (the normal distance between the first and fourth fingers in any given position) with the fourth finger just touching the string a fourth higher than the stopped ...

  6. String harmonic - Wikipedia

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    A pinch harmonic (also known as squelch picking, pick harmonic or squealy) is a guitar technique to achieve artificial harmonics in which the player's thumb or index finger on the picking hand slightly catches the string after it is picked, [10] canceling (silencing) the fundamental frequency of the string, and letting one of the overtones ...

  7. Category:String performance techniques - Wikipedia

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    String harmonic; String noise; T. Tremolo; V. Violin technique; W. Wolf tone This page was last edited on 23 February 2012, at 23:31 ...

  8. Overtone - Wikipedia

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    Various techniques of bow pressure may also be used to bring out the overtones, as well as using string nodes to produce natural harmonics. On violin family instruments, overtones can be played with the bow or by plucking. Scores and parts for Western violin family instruments indicate where the performer is to play harmonics.

  9. Double stop - Wikipedia

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    In music, a double stop is 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 as the Hardanger fiddle it is common and often employed. In performing a double stop, two separate strings are bowed or plucked simultaneously.

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