Below you will find example sentences with "open string". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Open String in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 15
- Discovered as a combination around: string
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 23.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "open string" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 23.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as by an open string, on an open string, note, violin and use stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with open source, string theory, open sets and low string, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with open string
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Natural harmonics are played on an open string. (8 words)
Bass guitar time signal of open string A note (55 Hz). (11 words)
The pitch of the open string is called the fundamental frequency. (11 words)
Further, it is impossible to use vibrato fully on an open string (though a partial effect can be achieved by stopping a note an octave up on an adjacent string and vibrating that, which introduces an element of vibrato into the overtones). (42 words)
In Saint-Saëns' " Danse Macabre ", the high string of the violin is lower half a tone to the E so as to have the most accented note of the main theme sound on an open string. (36 words)
If the open string is in tune, but sharp or flat when frets are pressed, the bridge saddle position can be adjusted with a screwdriver or hex key to remedy the problem. (32 words)
Example sentences (15)
Open strings If a string is bowed or plucked without any finger stopping it, it is said to be an open string.
Some classical violin parts have notes for which the composer requests the violinist to play an open string, because of the specific sonority created by an open string.
Further, it is impossible to use vibrato fully on an open string (though a partial effect can be achieved by stopping a note an octave up on an adjacent string and vibrating that, which introduces an element of vibrato into the overtones).
In Saint-Saëns' " Danse Macabre ", the high string of the violin is lower half a tone to the E so as to have the most accented note of the main theme sound on an open string.
In some musical styles, a sustained open string drone can be played during a passage mainly written on an adjacent string, to provide a basic accompaniment.
In the classical tradition, violinists will often use a string crossing or shift of position to allow them to avoid the change of timbre introduced by an open string.
Of course, you will not miss any of the control lost from the wide-open string pattern, because nearly every other quality is control oriented.
As an open string propagates through spacetime, its endpoints are required to lie on a D-brane.
Bass guitar time signal of open string A note (55 Hz).
Especially in instructional editions of violin music, numbers over the notes may indicate which finger to use, with 0 indicating an open string.
If the open string is in tune, but sharp or flat when frets are pressed, the bridge saddle position can be adjusted with a screwdriver or hex key to remedy the problem.
Natural harmonics are played on an open string.
Playing an open string simultaneously with an identical stopped note can also be called for when more volume is required, especially in orchestral playing.
The pitch of the open string is called the fundamental frequency.
The term "double stop" is often used to encompass sounding an open string alongside a fingered note.