string player
Americannoun
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Banjo and string player Matt Worley was “Saving Grace’s” musical instigator, approaching Plant at a pub.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
This small revolution is known as “the chop,” a percussive technique that opens up a new world of rhythm and groove for the bowed string player.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021
For some years, Frey has been fascinated by a technique he calls “halftone harmonics,” in which a string player uses special fingering to coax two neighboring pitches from a single string, with whispery overtones attached.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2019
The irony is that Lou isn’t a string player at all.
From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2018
What is a string player doing when she plays "harmonics"? Why do some notes sound good together while other notes seem to clash with each other?
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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