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Playing a string harmonic is a string instrument technique that uses the nodes of natural harmonics of a musical string to isolate overtones. Playing string harmonics produces high pitched tones, often compared in timbre to a whistle or flute. Overtones can be isolated "by lightly touching the string with the finger instead of pressing it down" against the fingerboard. For some instruments this is a fundamental technique, such as the Chinese guqin, where it is known as fan yin, and the Vietnamese đà n bầu. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: String harmonicA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Vibration of an axially moving string with nonclassical boundary conditions subjected to harmonic excitation based on the method of multiple scalesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Kombinationstöne und Tartinis "terzo suono"The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String QuartetsCited 32 times
- Go sideways: HarmonicA closely related topic
- Go sideways: OvertoneA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String Quartets
Effects of Finger Markers and Harmonic Context on Performance of Beginning String Students
On transversal oscillations of a vertically translating string with small time-harmonic length variations
Quantum quench in non-relativistic fermionic field theory: harmonic traps and 2d string theory
General two-harmonic cosmic string
Parametric resonance in nonlinear vibrations of string under harmonic heating
Product representation for the harmonic series of a unit vector: A string application
On the wave propagation in a beam-string model subjected to a moving harmonic excitation
🆕 Influential since 2022
Vibration of an axially moving string with nonclassical boundary conditions subjected to harmonic excitation based on the method of multiple scales
Analogue black string in a quantum harmonic oscillator
Frolov–AdS black holes immersed in a string fluid: Harmonic oscillations, phase structure, and topological classification
Morris–Thorne-type wormhole with a cosmic string effects on harmonic oscillator problem
Klein–Gordon oscillator in the presence of harmonic-like potentials in the rotating cosmic string space–time
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕Kombinationstöne und Tartinis "terzo suono"Angela Lohri · 2016
SEARCH FOR AH...The Myth of Modern MusicMark C. Billington, Joe Flynn · 2000
String-Math 2016Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor, Ruben Minasian · 2018
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