Sorry, Philip. I was going to get here, and was interrupted by a colleague.
The idea of playing harmonics on bowed string instruments includes using a very light touch (hence, not squashing finger meat all over the string) and finding the point as you bow that the harmonic "sounds" best. That is usually enough to eliminate errors by reducing the string length at the touch point. william On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Philip Brown <phi...@brown.cx> wrote: > That may be true, but a more obvious cause would be that the total > length of vibrating string is reduced by the width of the area of > contact of the finger. > > Cheers > > Philip Brown > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:00 AM, <willsam...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> They would be for a perfectly thin flexible string - but string stiffness >> sharpens the higher harmonics. >> Bill >> Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David van Ooijen <davidvanooi...@gmail.com> >> Sender: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu >> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:55:50 >> To: Lutelist List<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tuning >> >> On 25 June 2012 09:39, andy butler <akbut...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >>> Harmonics on a plucked string are a little bit sharp, >> >> Isn't it the case that harmonics are pure by definition? >> >> David >> >> -- >> ******************************* >> David van Ooijen >> davidvanooi...@gmail.com >> www.davidvanooijen.nl >> ******************************* >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> > >
