At 7:06 PM -0400 10/4/08, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Not sure if the second partial is reachable on the strings I have in mind. (Hard to tell since I don't have a 9' grand kicking around to try it on.) The player will, I think need to touch the fourth partial instead.
(Light bulb!!!) ARe we talking about two different things? If so, I suspect that's why I found some of the statements puzzling.
I was referring to raising the dampers off certain strings so they can ring sympathetically when energized by playing low notes in the same harmonic series. I sounds as if you are talking about touching nodal points on the strings, instead. I'm not sure how the harmonic in that case would be excited, but it should be doable.
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