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Natural harmonics
Natural harmonics can be notated in several ways. A diamond-shaped note head generally means to touch the string where you would stop the note if it were not a diamond.
Note: Harmonics must be defined inside a chord construct even if there is only a single note. |
Dotted harmonics indicated with \harmonic
do not show the
dots. The context property harmonicDots
should be set if
dots are required.
<d\harmonic>4 <e\harmonic>2. \set harmonicDots = ##t <d\harmonic>4 <e\harmonic>2.
Alternatively a normal note head is shown at the pitch to be sounded together with a small circle to indicate it should be played as a harmonic:
d2^\flageolet d_\flageolet
A smaller circle may be created, see the snippet list in References for unfretted strings.
Artificial harmonics
Artificial harmonics are notated with two notes, one with a normal note head indicating the stopped position and one with an open diamond note head to indicate the harmonic position.
<e a\harmonic>2 <c g'\harmonic>
Music Glossary: harmonics.
Notation Reference: Special note heads, References for unfretted strings.