enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bowed string instrument extended technique - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_string_instrument...

    The bow can be held vertically and the screw of the bow placed firmly against a string either at the location of a fingered note or at some other point. The string can then be plucked with the right hand and the screw of the bow can be simultaneously dragged up or down the string. The effect of this is to produce a quiet rising or falling ping.

  3. Bowed guitar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_guitar

    The Pickaso Technique refers to a unique method of bowed guitar playing introduced with the Pickaso Guitar Bow. Unlike traditional bows, which struggle with the guitar’s flat fingerboard radius, this technique allows players to move the bow within the guitar’s sound hole area, effectively bowing individual or dual strings on acoustic guitars.

  4. Bow stroke - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_stroke

    An up-bow is a type of stroke used when bowing a musical instrument, most often a string instrument. The player draws the bow upward or to the left across the instrument, moving the point of contact from the bow's tip toward the frog (the end of the bow held by the player).

  5. Col legno - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_legno

    The percussive sound of battuto has a clear pitch element determined by the distance of the bow from the bridge at the point of contact. As a group of players will never strike the string in exactly the same place, the sound of a section of violins playing col legno battuto is dramatically different from the sound of a single violin doing so.

  6. String band - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_band

    Old-time string bands were mainly composed of stringed instruments.Those instruments being the fiddle, 5-string banjo, acoustic guitar, and an upright bass/cello.. Depending on the type of genre the old-time music is being accompanied by, the stringed instruments may also be joined by other instruments including spoons, washboards, jugs, harmonica, harps a

  7. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_string_instruments

    Diddley bow (United States) Dombra (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) Domra (Russia) Piccolo Domra; Prims DomraPrima: Soprano DomraSoprano: b e1 a1[4] Alto DomraAlto: e a d1[5] Tenor DomraTenor: B e a[6] Bass DomraBass: E A d[7] Contrabass Domra (major) Contrabass Domra (minor) Doshpuluur (Tuva) Dotar; Dotara (Bangladesh) Double bass; Dramyin ...

  8. Changing Horses (Incredible String Band album) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_Horses...

    The band undertook extensive studies of spirituality and philosophy as a way of self-analyzing themselves, and their religious conversion was a part of the process. [7] Changing Horses reflected upon these developments and their abstinence from the use of drugs, which did not change the group's complexity, but the structure differed from the ...

  9. Bow (music) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_(music)

    A cello bow. In music, a bow (/ b oʊ /) is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it.It is moved across some part (generally some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound.