Music – Instruments – Stringed
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-23
2011-08-23
Lockett, Kimberly (Department: 2832)
Music
Instruments
Stringed
Reexamination Certificate
active
08003869
ABSTRACT:
A harmonic chime on a stringed instrument can be rendered by touching a part of a stringed instrument player's body, which is not part of a first member of the player's body that shortens a playable length of a string, to the string along its playable length at a harmonic-rendering position of the string, and plucking the string within its playable length to provide a harmonic chime on the string. Such a technique can provide for natural or artificial harmonic tones.
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