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Are percussion instruments the only instrument type capable of making an unpitched (indefinite) sound? [Electronic instruments excluded]
Any stringed instrument can also become a percussion instrument. Hitting the instrument body is very obvious - but just with the strings, you have more options too.
For starters, you can have the ...
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Standard notation for left hand bars/barres on guitar when playing natural harmonics in a single fret and using a single left hand finger
Unfortunately, I have impression that notation of classical guitar harmonics is not very well standardized. In particular, reading artificial harmonics is sometimes a bit of a riddle.
But I don't see ...
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Are percussion instruments the only instrument type capable of making an unpitched (indefinite) sound? [Electronic instruments excluded]
No, certainly many instruments that make pitched sounds can also make unpitched. Often this means using "extended techniques," i.e. doing "weird stuff" outside of normal practice, ...
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Are percussion instruments the only instrument type capable of making an unpitched (indefinite) sound? [Electronic instruments excluded]
Not exactly. The different between "pitched" and "unpitched" sound is actually a matter of degree, not discrete. An instrument that is heard as pitched creates mostly the same ...
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