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#Pizzicato polka for string quartet series#

The inharmonicity of a string depends on its physical characteristics, such as tension, composition, diameter and length. This complex timbre is called inharmonicity.

#Pizzicato polka for string quartet series#

When a string is struck or plucked, as with pizzicato, sound waves are generated that do not belong to a harmonic series as when a string is bowed. It is also known (especially in non-classical guitar) as palm muting.

On the guitar, it is a muted form of plucking, which bears an audible resemblance to pizzicato on a bowed string instrument with its relatively shorter sustain.

On keyboard string instruments, such as the piano, pizzicato may be employed (although rarely seen in traditional repertoire, this technique has been normalized in contemporary music, with ample examples by George Crumb, Toru Takemitsu, Helmut Lachenmann, and others) as one of the variety of techniques involving direct manipulation of the strings known collectively as " string piano".

This produces a very different sound from bowing, short and percussive rather than sustained.

On bowed string instruments it is a method of playing by plucking the strings with the fingers, rather than using the bow.The exact technique varies somewhat depending on the type of instrument: Pizzicato ( / ˌ p ɪ t s ɪ ˈ k ɑː t oʊ/, Italian: translated as "pinched", and sometimes roughly as "plucked") is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.