natural harmonics

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.

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Example Sentences

Mr. Young was then developing his drone style with the Theater of Eternal Music, letting the natural harmonics of long-held tones ring out loudly, sometimes for hours.

From New York Times • May 6, 2011

What this technique does is eke out as many as possible of the sympathetic resonances, or harmonics, latent in the reverberating strings, thus imitating the natural harmonics found in plucked strings and struck metal bars.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Knowledge of life and the world has entered in to mar the natural harmonics of the human voice, which not all the skill and efforts of the vocal culturists can ever again restore.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

In Claude Debussy's compositions, his system of harmony and tonality is intimately connected with these laws of natural harmonics.

From The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Brower, Harriette