At 6:32 PM -0400 4/3/08, Darcy James Argue wrote:
the question is whether to use harmonics or sul tasto, but I'd much rather have them in harmonics if possible.
????????? Sul tasto is a bowing instruction to bow over the fingerboard (fewer overtones, therefore a softer tone). I can't imagine that as an either/or for harmonics!
And I'm curious about the terminology 5th-touch and 4th-touch. (Or maybe it was touch-4th and touch-5th.) Not that I had any trouble understanding what you meant, but I was hesitant in my previous post because I have never, ever, seen or heard those terms used by any string player or string teacher. I wonder whether they might have originated in a single orchestration book or a similar source.
A string player would talk about an artificial harmonic of the 4th, or of the 5th (or for that matter of the major 3rd, minor 3rd, or major 2nd, all of which are quite possible but take a lot of practice to master. They're fantastic for improving fine bow control.
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