At 5:44 PM -0400 4/3/08, Darcy James Argue wrote:
How practical are touch-fifth artificial harmonics low on the viola?
Is that a big stretch?
Cheers,
I assume that you mean holding down the first finger to fret the
string, and touching it with the 4th finger (5th finger to pianists!)
at the nodal point a 5th above. Yes, it's a stretch, but quite
playable. Someone with a small hand would probably move the hand
partly up the fingerboard with the 1st finger stretched back, very
similar to a cellist's extended position to cover a major 3rd.
John
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